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Title: Our Future
Author: tydaqq
Language: en
Topics: post-civ, technology, futurism

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Our Future

Introduction

What does our future entail? This is the essential question at the root

of all political discourse — the discussion of future societies. So we

need to ask ourselves what these futures entail. There is a crucial

concept we must first realize when discussing the societies of the

future, the dichotomy of Realistic progress vs. Anti-Realistic progress.

Naturally, the debate centers around what is realistically possible to

occur. However, in reality, this is antithetical to the debate. The

progress of all hitherto existing societies is not Realistic. Instead,

it is Anti-Realistic. Imagine speaking to a person from 500 years ago

and telling them about the internet. It would be impossible for them to

grasp. If a theorist during that period predicted the internet,

everybody would call them insane; they would say that their predictions

aren’t realistic in the slightest. If you told them that every person on

earth would be connected via boxes that flow electricity in a particular

manner to do so, that would be impossible to realize. Because of the

elements of the time, it was Anti-Realistic. But despite that, it

occurred anyway, and this is because history doesn’t move Realistically;

it moves in a current of Anti-Realistic progress. Therefore when

discussing what the future entails, we must not limit ourselves to

thinking of what is currently possible or nearly possible. We must not

limit ourselves to Realistic progress; we must think Anti-Realistically.

Part 1: The Collapse of Civilization

This is the first step towards societies of the future, the downfall and

the total collapse of civilization as we know it. But what is

Civilization in the first place? Civilization is a complex society with

Social Institutions, Government, and all elements of what make up the

world that we know. This is distinct and separate from society, which is

simply the sum of various individual interactions. Civilization is

naturally bound with contradictions, most exemplified in the suppression

of the Individual. When the Individual is suppressed, whether it be by

Government, by Religion, by School, and so on, the Individual becomes

Alienated from their natural state, the natural state of being an

Individualistic being. Civilization is not natural; Civilization is the

Antithesis of nature. All institutions that seem natural are radically

unnatural. The natural state of humanity is to be an individual. To not

be grasped by any Social Institution, not to be grasped by Civilization.

In reality, we are born to survive and repopulate. We are animals. It is

not our natural state to be forced into these schools, controlled by

these governments, be grasped by the Neurosis of societal pressure.

However, in Civilization, this is all thrown out of the window. The

Individual’s natural state is suppressed, and they are practically

brainwashed into thinking this is their natural state. This is in an

inherent contradiction with the reality of our nature, our

Individuality. This contradiction produces conflict, and this conflict

will lead to the total collapse of Civilization. So why hasn’t it

happened yet?

Because the material conditions haven’t been available to do so, this

contradiction is not civilization-ending in itself; only when

Civilization is made obsolete does this contradiction produce conflict.

And as we are speaking, Civilization is being made obsolete. The

Acceleration of Technology is going to make (and has made) certain

aspects of Civilization entirely obsolete. Before we know it, this is

going to happen to all of Civilization. Right now, with the emergence of

Automated Labor, work is becoming obsolete. Soon enough, work won’t

exist anymore. There will be machines to do everything better and more

efficiently than humans ever could. So what would a Post-Work

Civilization look like? This is unanswerable because Civilization cannot

exist without Societal Labor. Government will become obsolete because

the role of the Government as an enforcer of Societal Control will phase

out in the Automation of Society. Government only exists and only

emerged to regulate labor. Tribal societies only developed early forms

of Government because they needed to regulate labor efficiently. So when

labor becomes entirely unregulatable and human labor obsolete, then the

Government will phase out of existence.

Furthermore, another aspect of Civilization that will pile onto this and

be a determining factor behind the collapse of Civilization is Climate

Change. There is a sizeable ecological aspect to the collapse of

Civilization. Climate Anxiety will further empower the contradictions of

Civilization. It will encourage the Individual to rise, and the

overproduction, over-exhaustion, and overall ecological stress that

Civilization places on nature will lead to the soon-coming demise of

itself. All of these aspects will pile onto each other, every role of

Civilization, every aspect of it, will cease to exist. It is leading to

only one option: The Total Collapse of Civilization.

Part 2: New Society

Now that Civilization has collapsed, what is next? How will society

rebuild itself? How will society function when Civilization has

collapsed, and all aspects of a ‘functioning’ society have become

obsolete? Society will be rebuilt off the ideals of Free Association,

Free Time, and Free Individuality. We will return to our nature, and the

unnatural aspects of Civilization will no longer grasp us. Instead, we

will act Individualistically and freely associate with other

individuals. As well, all time that we have will be times of leisure,

‘Free Time’ you could say. It is true that in our future societies, in

our New Society bound by Individualistic Communism, ‘Communism is Free

Time and nothing else!’ This is how our societies will rebuild; this is

what our ‘New Society’ will be. The purely Liberated society, free of

all Social control. A natural state of Leisure, Pleasure, and

Individuality; How our nature is intended. But let it be known, when

referring to ‘Natural State,’ we do not mean Primitivism. Primitivism

entails an Anti-Technological society. In a Post-Civilization New

Society, we will still utilize Technology, even encourage Technology.

But we will not be the ones in control of Technology, and the Technology

will be a bystander, which we will utilize to distribute resources. For

example, Food will be provided by Technology, and no human labor will be

put into producing it. Food will be distributed equally among all

people, not according to bourgeois ideals of ‘deservedness’ or ‘how hard

you worked for it.’ In a society of leisure, there will be no

measurement of labor to determine the distribution of resources. This is

not a primitive society but rather a uniquely technological one — a

uniquely new Society, a society past Civilization, not behind it.

Conclusion

Society is headed towards collapse; there is nothing we can do about it.

We shouldn’t try to slow it down or speed it up, but rather sit back and

enjoy the total collapse of Civilization. This collapse will not be a

sad thing, and it will not be a fearful thing. It will be a liberating

thing. It will accelerate us into an ideal future, a future free of the

Neurosis that Societal Structures hold us in.

And to the Critics that say it is an Idealistic future, Yes. This is not

a realistic notion of what future societies will be like, but that is a

good thing. History moves in a current of Anti-Realism, Anti-Realistic

progress. To accurately describe our future, we must think not in the

limits of Realism, but through the liberating ideals of Anti-Realism, we

must think Anti-Realistically.

When will this collapse occur? That is hard to answer, but based on

current society's trends, we will likely see a collapse within the next

few decades, so that is something to look forward to. However, I cannot

promise that we will reach this idealistic New Society within our

lifetimes, but regardless we will still see the beginning of a new

society. We are at the end of history. And that is an Ecstatic feeling.

Revel in this feeling, and adore it while it lasts.