Part of the forecast for Cybernetic State formation is going to be about charting the development of true breakthrough populisms and terrorisms that revolt against the logic and circuitry of the Machine God - until that happens and is resolved, the next century cannot start. Nowhere has there been successful populism that violently rejects Ellul's Technique. These are not prescriptive predictions or necessarily hyperstitional but observations about resolving latent tensions for the next century to kickstart. MAGA, Wilders, Le Pen all kind of sort hint at what's behind the resentment and angst but none have been truly able to get to the heart of the matter, and this has led to a cycle of cultural buffering where we are waiting for the next phase to load. It also speaks to a larger question about what dissent properly looks like in an era where state sponsored splinternets, predictive policing and blockchain surveillance chains with neurological surveillance are increasingly probable in a 10 year window.

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On loneliness, nihilist realism, Nietzsche, Solarpunk and Cybernetic Capitalism

Cognitive enclosures (splinternets) with constant neurological surveillance (BCI) creating loops of reinforced illiteracy will render the Enlightenment dead - deterministic social engineering via cybernetic governance will threaten to overwhelm any cosmotechnic project. AI search engines like Perplexity is the first crude prototypical iteration of what such a structure could look like; coupled with new device interfaces that fuse silicon and biology, digested snippets bereft of deep context and literacy presented in neat bullet points beamed in. OpenAI has given up any pretence of its original mission statement offering the GCC potentially nationwide subscriptions with undoubtedly editorial priveleges on the responses through the blackbox. China competes on the same trajectory with Deepseek.