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An uplifting piece, John, and a pleasure to read. I do not want to weaken your resolve or enthusiasm, but there is the possibility that the 'resistance' (like you or me or any of the readership) are just adapting to long-term shifts and that we are able to do this because the system can function happily enough without our active support and regardless of our ideational and rhetorical defiance.

The great problem that our masters, the Sado-Malthusians, face is the existence of a large number of surplus people. The growing number of resisters and dissenters mocking them cheers us all, but they remain in control of all existing institutions. A thriving anti-hegemonic counter-culture may exist for generations to come on the margins and may occupy the energy and time of the underemployed or marginalised (the precariat, the cancelled and the NEET).

A transhumanist technotopia or a technotronic dream are not realisable, but the Brazilian/Haitian model is a viable option and is taking shape. The Blue States are getting remade as low intensity no-go zones (at least until they are re-gentrified in half a generation or so) but the Red will end up like the better parts of Brazil and over time internal immigration will create an abundant number of favelas there too. Imagine something like a better version of ELYSIUM without the satellite-colonies or BLADERUNNER without the off-world settlements.

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I object to the absence of orbital rings and off-world colonies.

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You'll have to take that up with the mulatta lesbians with the butch haircuts.

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I shall protest most strenuously.

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Thank you for the encouragement. I am thinking of a substack newsletter.

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Phillip is one of the top commenters who should really be writing his own blog.

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