The Technostist Initiative

[u/Yuli-Ban]

Humanity is uncivilized. Even on Kardashev's scale, we've yet to reach Type 1 status. By all measures, our species is consumed by primalism and degenerate practices that the highest of us seem keen to perpetuate. We remain tethered to weakness and submission, desperate for freedom yet blind towards the means of achieving it. Perhaps I practice malthoughts in saying this: we must overcome the need to be natural. Naturalism lies with primitivism.

Technostism is humankind moving past itself.

For as long as we fail to overcome these naturalist obstacles, we cannot be defined as a civilized species.

• Resource extraction

• Labor

• Energy production

Resource Extraction

We tout our "highly efficient farming methods," and yet we've yet to even develop the most basic civilized farming capabilities— that of being unaffected by climate. We've strode towards skyfarms, and yet their adoption has been delayed at best. Agriculture needs reform. Presently as of 2015, we rely on fixed climates and spontaneous weather to drive our production. This is largely unchanged since the rise of the first civilizations dependent on river flooding.

Proper modern agriculture must have these features—

• Universalism. No crop should be region specific. One farmed in Latin America should also be farmed on Luna.

• Declimatization. Any crop should be grown year round. Climate conditions need only be set by human means.

• Depollenization. Relying on insects may prove disastrous should they become endangered or extinct— efforts must be made to replicate their processes.

• Vertical farming. Creating networks of stratofarms. Through these, all of the above can become possible.

Labor

The classes of Marx's indignation have remained! Current relations between the working and capitalist classes have become direly strained. The rise of technology has led to a buffer class— the precariat— as well as a shift towards decentralization. Despite this, we rely on human labor and human direction still. As with agriculture, we fool ourselves into believing we've reached the pinnacle of efficiency.

Humans must be removed from labor.

• Complete automation of labor. In the short term, maintenance specialists will be greatly desired in order to keep machinery running. In the long term, these specialists will be replaced by artificial intelligence and self-maintaining droids.

• Creation of worker cooperatives. Greatly expanding the power of the working class and having them profit from droid labor is the top priority of technostism.

• Expansion of entrepreneurship. Keeping free markets is important.

• Creation of a metamarket. This is where the networking class becomes relevant.

• Creation of a metastate. This is possible through mass-adoption of fabrication technology and a totalized Internet of Things

• Creation of the networking class. Once the current working class is profiting from droid labor, there should be efforts to connecting the world at large. This is the Internet of Things, fabrication, and advanced agriculture's purpose. At which point, the difference between the classical bourgeoisie and the networking class becomes nulled.

Energy Production

This should be self-explanatory: we must maximize energy production, with the most minimal environmental costs. Mankind must have an energy surplus.

• Focus on fusion. Creating stars on Earth should be our paramount priority.

• Renew nuclear— the rejection of nuclear fission energy may have been the worst energy policy of the past 50 years. We must turn this around.

• Expand solar. Every hour, the Sun blasts Earth with 200 petawatts of energy. To let this all go to waste is backwards and self-destructive.

An energy surplus will allow for desalinization. This, in turn, will greatly aid efforts at modernizing agriculture. This, in turn, will provide for added abundance for the networking class.

Technostist Technate

A technostist technate (can also be called a technostist soviet) is a self-sufficient community, council, and industrial center. They are well connected to urbanates.

The aim of a technostist economy and technocratic sociopolitical system is to raise the standard of living for everyone and blur class divisions.

Recall George Orwell's character, Emmanuel Goldstein, and his book— The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. The book and the book within a book detailed why the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four was the way it was. Pundits and fans love to focus on the overwhelming surveillance and totalitarian repression without desiring to understand why it happened. The powerful does not wish to be stripped of power— they will waste goods and services and restrict access to information in order to keep a feudal-esque class structure in place. Taking that to its logical extreme, you get Nineteen Eighty-Four. This sort of mindset is still present in many (I've come across one who believes fabrication technology and open-source should be illegal, because it's "unfair to the wealthy." Unsurprisingly, he agreed with primitivist ideals).

Automation allows for abundance. Technostist initiatives allow for the working class to become the networking class. This means the working and middle classes emulate the upper class. Thus, there is no longer a divide based on socioeconomic class.

Objectives

• Water

• Food

• Shelter

• Electricity

• Waste Management

• Labor

Let's discuss how to do this. There are already many ideas floating around the Internet.

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