Top Three Videos – September 20, 2025
Luka Goleš Babić: The Rise of Globalist Technocratic Neo-Totalitarianism...(Sept 12, 2025)
Geopolitics & Empire...
Summary
The rise of globalist technocratic totalitarianism during the COVID crisis poses a significant threat to individual freedoms and social bonds, necessitating urgent resistance and a shift in consciousness to preserve human agency and prevent authoritarian control.
Technocratic Totalitarianism
The emerging globalist technocracy is a new form of totalitarianism, differing from past regimes like Nazism or communism, furthered through narratives related to climate change and ongoing wars.
Mass formation or collective hypnosis is the first step towards totalitarianism, where atomized people lacking social bonds form around unhealthy narratives, calling for leaders to rule over them.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed deeper issues, including the deification of technology and erosion of social bonds, making people susceptible to mass formation.
Technological Control
A cyber gulag or electronic concentration camp is being created where people can be tracked, controlled, and punished for dissent using digital passports, biometrics, and geolocation restrictions.
China serves as the current model for the technocratic elite’s vision of a totalitarian world state, slowly transforming liberal democracy into a globalist technocracy.
The EU’s technocratic totalitarianism is evolving into a more efficient technocratic bureaucracy, which may eventually be replaced entirely by AI.
Societal Impact
The Huxley dystopia is more relevant today, warning that the worst totalitarianism will come when people embrace their slavery through technological gifts and decadence.
Haidiger’s view of technology suggests that each new technology acts like a living organism, penetrating society and changing how people think and find new uses for it.
The technocratic totalitarianism reflects the masses’ own state, with people broken by constant technology use and living by the algorithm in front of their face.
Global Governance
The European Union serves as a prototype for a technocratic totalitarian world government, born from the pretext of World War II and being replicated globally.
The EU’s freedom is a repressive freedom lacking an organizing principle and higher meaning, used to achieve the goals of those in charge.
Historical Context
The technological age began with the enlightenment and the death of God, leading to the deification of technology and erosion of social bonds.
Resistance
Speaking out against totalitarian control and battling the deification of technology are crucial to prevent a totalitarian world state.
Recognizing the abstract and ever-present nature of narratives like climate change is essential to combat the globalist technocracy agenda.
Douglas Rushkoff: How the Internet Went From Counterculture to Technofeudalism...(Sept 15, 2025)
Hidden Forces...
Summary
The internet has evolved from a collaborative, countercultural tool to a commercialized platform of control, known as technofeudalism, that exacerbates societal issues, but this outcome is not inevitable and can be changed.
Internet Evolution
The internet’s transformation from a collaborative, anarchic, human-centered medium in the 1990s to today’s highly commercialized, centralized platform for economic and political control marks a significant shift in digital culture.
The 1995 Netscape IPO catalyzed the internet’s commercialization, shifting from a shareware model to a big business paradigm, enabling investors to profit from the web rather than developing it for research.
Around 2012-2014, the internet’s business pivot became palpable, with ubiquitous connectivity through mobile and social media making it clear that the web was no longer for rebels but for the wealthy and powerful.
Digital Economy and Society
The digital age enables hundreds of steps of removal from labor through derivatives, allowing for passive income collection without direct involvement in value creation.
The internet’s fabric and programs have evolved to become increasingly two-way and depersonalized, with a vast surface area of accessibility that hinders human-like responses to messages.
The current digital media environment fosters fascism and authoritarianism due to its basis in memory, separation, and division, creating a binary world lacking the fluidity of analog systems.
Media Theory and Cultural Impact
Douglas Rushkoff’s disillusionment with theater’s elitism in the 1980s led him to explore the internet as a more inclusive and democratic medium.
Rushkoff’s bestselling books on internet and media used a critical analytical lens, making media studies more accessible to a wider audience.
The early internet was a dreamlike experience for adults in the 1990s, characterized by ephemeral memories of dial-up modems and AOL DVDs.
Digital vs. Analog Experience
Analog systems like rotary phones and vinyl records offer a more embodied and tactile experience, allowing for greater fluidity in human interaction compared to digital counterparts.
While digital files can now match the sound quality of records with dedicated converters, they still can’t fully replicate the analog experience of listening to vinyl.
The digital landscape’s ownership structure (e.g., Twitter) enforces a binary worldview, limiting nuanced positions and forcing users to choose sides, unlike the more fluid analog world.
Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us...(April 18, 2025)
Academy of Ideas...
Summary
Technology is a dehumanizing force that prioritizes efficiency and control over human values, ultimately leading to enslavement and erosion of individual freedom and autonomy.
Technological Society and Mindset
The technological society is characterized by a pervasive technological mindset that views problems through a technical lens, leading to dehumanization and loss of freedom as technique becomes ubiquitous.
Four subdivisions of technique (machine, economic, organizational, and human) have infiltrated all areas of society, shaping our work, government, social trends, and health.
Autonomy and Control
The autonomous development of technique creates a self-perpetuating cycle of technical control and efficiency, eroding natural world and human values.
Technological society acts as a centralizing force, concentrating power in the hands of a few while promoting control by centralized states and manipulation of thoughts and behavior.
Human Impact
Technological enslavement leads to a form of totalitarianism that occurs organically as technique becomes ubiquitous, transforming individuals into objects manipulated for technical ends.
The constant reliance on standardized assessments and checklists in technological society replaces human intuition and creativity with machine-like precision, diminishing our ability to acquire truth through non-technical means.