This week, Executive Director Mike Benz said: Foundation for Freedom Onlineis using a new meme make An old argument takes on new importance: “You cannot make us Chinese if we ourselves first become Chinese.”
This idea is at least in keeping with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s Notorious The 2010 fantasy of “China for a Day” is simple enough: the Chinese seem to have figured out how to reconcile technology and solidarity, resulting in great growth for the people and great privileges for the elite. Could we take a cue from Beijing and do the same?
The solution is to overthrow America and build a new America for the digital age, one that is as America and its people as China and the Chinese, but in our own way.
Jokes aside, Friedman Really We want to be China. He wanted to have America’s cake and eat it too, as did just about everyone else who looks enviously across the ocean at China’s deft political restructuring on the terms of the digital age. Because the quickest way to become China is to let China remake us in their own image.
The outlook for hope takes on a different tone: if only our elites could “copy China” here too! But here too the obstacles are shifting: it is slowly being realised that we are not very good at being China, and for this our elites are happy to blame the American people, but they are harder to appease than expected, and time is running out.
There is another obstacle: China is trying to displace the United States as the dominant and decisive world power. This suggests that the US elites’ envy of China can only be achieved by overthrowing US global dominance, which in turn threatens the US elites.
For us in the West, there is really only one path to such collectivist unity, and while many claim that it is communism, communism, at least as we know it, is only one step along the way.
Communism as we know it gained power and supporters by opposing not just Christianity but all religions, and it proved to be quite effective for a while – for roughly the same period that radio and television dominated our technologically mediated environment.
That environment made the human imagination the most powerful force in the world, a world in which, of course, the soft atheistic communist song “Imagine” was most popular, echoing John Lennon’s earlier assertion that “Christianity is going away. It’s going to disappear and get smaller. There’s no need to debate that. I’m right and it’s going to be proven right. We’re more popular now than Jesus. I don’t know whether it’s going to disappear first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was good but his disciples were stupid and mediocre.”
America’s imaginative elites built digital technologies to complete a post-religious American capitalist-driven communism around the world, but, shockingly, that project failed while China’s post-religious capitalist-driven communism project began in earnest.
This is because digital collectivism fits very well with the religious framework established at the origins of the Chinese civilizational state. After the end of the Cold War, Chinese elites began to focus on showing themselves and their people that while Western communism had certain internal problems, China, thanks to its deep civilizational anthropology and cosmology, did not have to deal with them.
America, to put it mildly, does not share these deep roots. The spiritual roots of American civilization are Protestant, and from the very beginning, the anarchic tendencies of the Southern settlers and the theocratic tendencies of the Northern settlers created a complex and contradictory identity, leaving only one absolute path to genuine “indigenous” collectivism on a national scale – the path of the National Church.
Of course, that is in complete contradiction to our Constitution. Thus the real challenge facing American elites as they seek to beat China at its own game of usurping American global dominance in the digital age is to answer the riddle of “when is the church no longer the church?”
It is deeply felt, if rarely stated, that the answer to this question would unlock the ultimate cheat code: that by imposing theocracy on Americans, the elites would be able to digitally collectivize quickly and powerfully, replacing old American global dominance with new, and taking out China before it could win the world.
And for the elite, this approach works better because it seems they have no other choice: it’s all or nothing.
And in the struggle between the various elite factions for control to determine which theocracy would be established through a church that was not a church, two candidates for institutionalized worship drawn from deep Western religious foundations quickly rose to the top.
The first is Justice, the god of the awakened, a queer version of Zeus who believes in the convergence of infinitely proud and interoperable identities into one perfect arbiter to rule them all, and the second is Enlightenment, the god of technology, who increasingly worships the convergence of all interoperable things into one infinitely enlightened intelligence.
We see that interoperability and infinity govern both of these two creeds, and as we all see, most technocrats are willing to worship a god of justice as long as the god of enlightenment (and his priests) have the honor, and most awakened people are willing to worship a god of enlightenment as long as the god of justice (and his priests) have the honor.
After all, to achieve true and absolute justice on Earth we need a superhuman intelligence that can constantly calculate, adjudicate and adjudicate every microscopic injustice. This can only be achieved by the merging of man and machine into a cyborg mass. The contours of a Church unlike any other begin to emerge, where awakened people and technology blend in harmony into one gigantic cyborg theocracy… large enough to swallow China itself.
That is the plan! And so, unable to rely on a church that is a church but has not established a theocracy, Americans seeking to save their country and humanity are forced to rely darkly on whatever weapons they can cling to.
