One of the most important developments in the new Trump era is how the main billionaires in the technology industry – often known as Brooligarchs – threw their weight behind the president. During the 2024 elections, they offered High -level Support and Made large donations; After the opening, they announced the policies of the new company that it is adjacent to with President Donald Trump’s cultural ideologies.
Elon Musk had already turned Twitter into a right -wing Echo room since it was purchased in 2022, and spent several chaotic months earlier this year as a government’s help in Trump. Jeff Bezos renewed The Liberation Department in the Washington Post To build support for “personal freedoms and free markets”. Mark Zuckerberg decided to get rid of the facts of the facts in Meta.
It was a huge offer of power that revealed the possibility of these wealthy men to reshape our culture in their own image, which transforms how we talk to each other and what we know is true. It seems that the use of this authority on behalf of Trump has paid mixed profits to the Silicon Valley, but it explains how important it is to understand their view of the world and their vision of the future.
That is why it is amazing to note that Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are participating in a favorite author: IAIN M. Banks, Scottish science fiction writer who is famous for the series of culture. Banks are a strange option for a group of technical billionaires. The author, who died in 2013, was a socialist and an advertiser of the wealthy.
“The Culture series is definitely, in terms of the most modern science fiction, one of my absolute preferences,” I tell Besus Geekwire in 2018Adding, “There is a utopian element that I find very attractive.” Bezos twice tried to adapt the TV series in Amazon, Once in 2018 and Again in February. During, Zuckerberg chose a culture of culture Game player For his book club In 2015.
Banks are a strange option for a group of technical billionaires. The author, who died in 2013, was a socialist and an advertiser of the wealthy.
However, most admirers of the declared culture between Broligarchs is musk. Musk named Space X Done after the mouth in culture books. His original name was for Neuralink – a computer slice that can be cultivated in human brains, pioneering by his neural technology company – Nervous laceA piece of the technique of the risk of banks in the culture books. In 2018, Musk announced himself “Employed Corporation of the type that Ian’s banks described(It is worth noting in 2018, Musk was under fire due to the violation of the union But he has not yet fought in national policy or declared The general war against “wakes the mind of the mind”.))
Many of us love him and even sympathize with parts of pop culture that we do not fully agree with, like Libertary house is small on the Barari books or Christian Narina records. However, the series of bank culture, which consists of 10 books, was issued between 1987 and 2012, is not a political coding as much as they are educationally. “Culture is a fool with excessive weapons and deep confidence in both the market and greed,” Bankax said in an interview with excessive weapons and the lack of deep confidence of both markets and greed. Strange prospects in 2010In a line that is hardly more clear than the books themselves.
The culture chain is carried out in the post -transportation community known only as culture, which is accurately estimated at sympathy, pluralism and social cooperation. Most of the series folders see the culture that moves in a quarrel with another civilization, usually with a less progressive spirit, and knowing how to deal with the resulting tension. Does culture interfere in the affairs of another planet, for example, stopped the spread of the Deodocratic Empire? What do you do about civilizations in which slavery is legal?
The policy of these books is not hidden, nor is it incompatible with the presence of billionaires. Therefore, it is worth thinking about the reason for the continuous martyrdom of Brooligarchs as a socialist author as an inspiration. What do they find about the work of banks? Do they miss the point completely?
Almost everything opposes the cultural books of the world as shown in Silicon Valley
It seems that almost every aspect of culture completely opposes the global view of the technological right.
Banks are the principle of the beginning of culture. The idea that civilization that provokes space must be socialist to be effective. In the hostile environment, as it argues, you will need to be able to rely on the collective. Other causes that cause each spacecraft or planet in culture should be reasonable to survive.
At the same time, the culture is strictly non -individual. There is no money and do not want. Therefore, there can be no billionaires or any economic inequality. There are no laws and hardly a crime. This is not a world where wealthy people who use their strength to influence the social fabric are logical.
“Informed, socialism at home, chaos without”, Banx concluded in the Ausinite publication in 1994 in which he puts The full theory of culture.
In culture, if a person commits a procedure, most people agree to be unacceptable, then everyone responds to social shame instead of the rule of law: they stop inviting the person concerned to the parties. In other words, like a group of appropriate leftists, they deal with misconduct through social cancellation, which is the great threat against BROLIGARCHS announced the war.
Even the balance between work and life in culture is present in opposing the ethics of Silicon Valley. Citizens of culture AIS have invented to a large extent who took care of them. This delegation liberates the culture of the citizens themselves in indulging what banks describe as “things that really concern life, such as sports, games, romance, studying dead languages, barbarian societies, impossible problems and climbing high mountains without the help of harnessing safety.” Those who have burdens with a lot of ambition in such a soft life, undertakes (unpaid) jobs in managing culture relations with other civilizations, most of them for adrenaline and adrenaline in everything.
It seems that this vision has affected The idea of ​​musk for the future Where artificial intelligence made work “optional”, so “if you want to do a bit -like job, you can do a job.” Musk allows that it will need a “high global income” for this plan to work, but does not specify any ideas about how confidentiality of such ambitious policy. Meanwhile, in our world, AmazonMeta and Timing All are notorious to demand employees to work for long hours.
Finally, and perhaps more than others on the current sexual policy of Brolegarchs, culture is sex. Anyone can only change sex by thinking about the matter, and most people do at least once in their lives, the states of the case are responsible for their strict gender equality system. During, Musk is hostile to muskZuckerberg tended to Gender ideologies retreat from Manosfir As it comes back Meta Policies to allow more hate speechEspecially towards LGBTQ+, and Amazon removed LGBTQ+ Rights Support From its website.
But not only that culture carries the opposite of the ideology represented by these men. The most powerful villain is Joiler Veppers, a wealthy man in a less developed civilization than culture, who uses his wealth to buy the media and influence the media, undermining trade unions, and raping his guaranteed slaves. Veppers comes from a family wealth that has been built in the computer games industry, and it focuses on this wealth by investing in servers in a series of virtual hellscapes, where regrettors are terrible to torture for everyone.
If you want to know how banks look at billionaires in the field of capitalist technology, you will not have to hunt very much. In the culture chain, the billionaire of capitalist technology is the craftsman, only it cannot bother to build hell himself.
So why the progarsh in culture books?
So what is the attractiveness of the culture chain if you are already We are Billionaire Capital Technology? Perhaps the technology itself.
If politics introduces culture books its intellectual framing, then technology is what gives them Zing, their scene. During the chain, banks describe the love of space ships and AIS (and a lot of space ships that are also AIS), artificial planets, tools and tools. In general, at the end of the book, culture uses one of these tools in an innovative way to win a large and explosive space war.
Read through this light, the technological ingenuity of culture provides brute force that supports its warm ideology and mystery. Culture can be perfect and worrying about people with moral guilt because it has better technology than all other civilizations it faces, which means that it will always win a battle.
If you are thinking about yourself as a giant of the industry that makes this technology for your own culture-which provides brute force that allows ethical desires-there is some easy comfort that comes with this alignment. You know that you are on the right side of history because you are on the side that builds the strongest and the most advanced techniques.
However, within the largest banks, banks are adopting, the relationship between politics and strength is supposed to be the opposite. Culture is not good because it is strong. Their strength is a metaphor for their righteousness. They have the best technology because this indicates that they are rational, that they appreciate intelligence, and that they are excited to give their citizens the best quality of life as possible.
Culture is not good because it is strong. Their strength is a metaphor for their righteousness.
To avoid this idea when reading banks, you must be wonderfully harmonious with the fun scene of technology and strength provided by its users, then ignore everything else. In this case, what broligarchs of the culture of culture reveals is that they see the world through the lens of strength and scene first and foremost, and they have no special problem in evading the deeper meaning of work. For this reason, this group has a tendency to significant exciting business, such as trips to almost space and Transfer the kitchen sink through the Twitter headquarters and A threat to each other in a general battle. It seems as if they feel they are entitled to have their strength because their favorite book taught them that the side that carries the best technologies always wins, and the most important thing you can do with this technique. They seem to be deeply read enough to understand what the book was trying to say really: that the most important thing that strong people can do is use their strength to make the world more free and more fun for everyone.
