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Many believe that when technology truly changes, opportunity is over. They are trapped in “the permanent underclass”.

How deep have we trapped ourselves in the mindset of stagnation? Once you live through a period of technological change, it is not possible to believe in this perverse myth.

After the steam engine came the factory, the locomotive, the modern city. After the transistor came the internet, email, Google, Facebook, and the entire digital economy. New technologies are the beginning of an explosion in social mobility. Believe fully in your moral and technological convictions and build. No great technological change comes without social reorganization.

The moral slogans of the twentieth century are withering fast. We live in anomalous times morally repugnant to civilizations past, from the British Empire to the Romans to the Mongols to the Han. Soon, our self-imposed straightjackets will look as unreasonable as any dead moral system.

Morality is important because it is how we organize law, taxation, safety, culture, and commerce. Morality will change markets, research, startup formation, investing, and daily life. It already has.

No one understands how far the snowball will roll. Those who tell right from wrong no longer act with conviction. They know not that they are winning. Every day, new iniquity and abuse is unveiled around them. They think only pessimistic thoughts. They see only disenchanted traces of false gods. They do not believe that a new morality can be formed. But it will, and it is inevitable.

This is not a persuasive article in the traditional sense. This is an article to describe how far the world will change and how to build the new world. This is an article to persuade those who already believe in concepts to act with full faith in their beliefs, to destroy our enemies and welcome our time.

Early reviewers of this article persuaded me to launch the vision first, and the execution later. But I am working on something to capitalize on this moment, and you should get in touch in the ways you know how if you’re interested.

The Veil of Deception

The internet is unveiling long-hidden truths. The moral and political architecture you live under was the direct consequence of television and radio¹. Broadcast is one-to-many while the internet is peer-to-peer. Some consequences are obvious, while others are well-hidden. Past technologies inherently distorted information in a narrative and projective direction, favoring authoritarian egalitarianism. The internet, revealing the full extent of other players’ values, behavior, and social organization, favors self-improving order. Unlike television or print, the internet is an environment with natural peers, natural friends and enemies. The internet is a new system of moral relations.

Now, the first generation to fully mature in the internet age is only just reaching adulthood. And can see exactly how television morality has pathologically lied to everyone for over a century. The internet revealed to everyone that the underclass cannot exist without mass subsidization and exception from the rule of law. Western regimes follow the moral rules of the TV dinner, and as a result have accumulated a political Looter class with two constant demands.

1. Reduction of standards to accommodate the criminal underclass
2. Arbitrary persecution of the most productive members of society

All of this matters to you personally. You may think you know the depth of the West’s moral failure. Perhaps you oppose racial quotas, criminality, or socialism. Your beliefs are noble, but they do not constitute the breadth of how morality will change. It is not merely that America has been subject to the hostage demands of its criminal underclass. Not merely that kind, hardworking, and noble men made slaves to the base and feral. What has not fully been conceptualized is how much the flesh of the ordinary man has been cut and misshaped to subsidize this inverted moral order. We don’t know what man will look like once he and his brothers push each up other towards greatness rather than down towards parasitism. Now is not merely the time of self-improving technology, but self-improving morality.

Trench Lawfare

At present, the concept of law itself has been completely inverted. And with the inversion of formal law is the inversion of its penumbra - expectation and necessity. Inverted law will be fixed in due time, but inverted culture² can be fixed immediately.

A necessary question of law is who the law governs. As observed by Plato³, all laws govern a specific people. For instance, American laws govern American citizens. Criminals who evade capture or who the state exempts from prosecution are immune from law. To know whether laws are just, we must ask whether laws promote just or unjust people.

An uncontroversial example is waste and fraud in public schools and universities. Excess of ninety percent of resources are directed towards dysfunctional students who in past decades would be correctly judged unfit for schooling. Programs for the smart but financially poor kids are shredded to subsidize the violent and disruptive - the cultural and often biological offspring of the criminal underclass. The earliest sacrifice of the best for the worst. This is an intentional construction of a half-century of education policy, dominanted by egalitarian activists and politicians.

For the worst, not only are their lives subsidized by the taxpayer, but law itself is suspended. Consider two-tier policing, most sensational in Britain, but occurring around the world. Law no longer provides equal protection to races or sexes. Victim groups have an exception to stab, murder, or otherwise victimize ‘oppressors’ based on race, sex, and nationality. Equally important but overlooked, Western law creates special liability for people running productive business, excessive and contradictory “regulation” for those who register above-board establishments. These are two faces of the same legal system. The same egalitarians, often precisely the same lawmakers, are responsible for both.

The equally important counterpart to this trend is that legal liability for productive Americans has expanded to a ridiculous degree. Consider the “Caution: HOT” print visible on cups and storefront across the West. This print is a legal requirement due to liability law. A Looter judge ruled that McDonalds must compensate their customers if they spill coffee on themselves without realizing that coffee is hot. The standard established in this case holds businesses accountable for not treating their customers as universally retarded. How did we arrive at such a ridiculous standard? This was not an attempt to create a just law, nevermind a just people. Rather, it is the natural conclusion of Looter ‘logic’, a post-hoc rationalization of subsidizing the underclass at any opportunity. However ridiculous the situation, egalitarians are drawn to narratives to present productive classes as villains and the underclass, however at fault, as victim.

In fact, the more an underperformer is responsible for their own or others’ suffering, the more the Looter sympathesizes. The Looter does not recognize cause and effect, only opportunity to loot from the productive and generous people who they terrorize.

All American liability, workplace safety, administrative, and welfare law derives from this framework. Every underperformer is an opportunity for looting, sympathetic under the right doublethink. This doublethink is so pervasive that self-identified conservatives seek to appeal to these traditions. It is not that conservatives prefer the looters; they maintain the natural human disgust productive Americans have for them. It is that the emotional connotations have ingrained themselves so deeply to form a pattern of automatic action, that Plato’s question of “who the law rules”, once an obvious question, does not even appear in their minds. The most important function of this doublethink is to make you forget that question.

A liability lawsuit is “justice” by definition. “Accountability”, “regulation”, “safety”, all propaganda terms used to loot the productive and hide the question of whether their lives have been improved when these catchphrases are used in an extortion racket. Safety in this sense has nothing to do with whether people are murdered on the street or doctors promoted for their race kill their patients. Instead, safety is the cudgel against new and interesting technologies like AI and nuclear energy, which offer productive people a career path outside of the Looter belief system. An economic transaction invisible to the Looter panopticon is “unsafe”.⁴ The Looter understanding of safety is irrelevant to physical safety, which they aggressively deteriorate by subsidizing and integrating the criminal underclass. Governance by connotation is so severe that certain self-professed conservatives, inevitably boomers, continue to expand the liability looting regime to the internet and to AI, unaware that they are handing their children’s future to people who hate them.

Noncrime Doublethink

The mindset of the Looter is simple, though self obfuscating. The method of looting is to label all constructive development as exploitation, identify an aggreived party, absolve that party of all responsibility, and extort the other party for all damages, perceived and real⁵. This is why the Looter loves the criminal underclass.

The Looters and the criminal underclass are not always the same people. The criminal underclass are the people who commit the crimes. The Looters are the political and legal apparatus - lawmakers, administrators, activists, lawyers, and judges - that justifies the crimes.

The relationship between Looter and criminal is symbiotic. Any damage criminals create, the Looters multiply and exponentiate for looting. When both parties are satisfied with their transaction⁶ Looters must invent some aggrieved third party - their reason for their war against freedom of association and freedom of speech. If grievance can be indirect, then Looters can extort every productive person, even if every last one of their customers were 100% satisfied.

At face value, this is simply organized crime.⁷ Except the modern Looter’s project is not organized; it is a free for all of ever-expanding criminals’ rights, legal nonprofits, and liabilities, a cthnonic growth with no ruler, no gang leader responsible for the preservation of their territory.

Its boundaries far exceed organized crime. Traditional organized crime is interested solely in their victims knowing who controls violence and paying accordingly. Looters are no longer capable of controlling the state monopoly on violence - the criminal underclass constantly victimizes even the most loyal of progressives. Instead, Looters control speech, thought, and loyalty. Looter-created laws mandate that this is done parasitically within firms, through legal and HR. They circumvent the first amendment through the selective suspension of freedom of association in business.

Tragically, this has led many great leaders to abandon their dreams. It has led them to do nothing, or pursue what is wrong rather than what is right. Large portions of the economy have been annihilated by this regulation, which governs thought as much as it does action. Those industries are at best offshored⁸ and at worst nonexistent.

In hindsight, we can view the rise of Uber as a digital revolution against the Looters stealing from riders and drivers. The moral language moved in parallel with technology. The Looters’ crime was only widely understood in retrospect.

So hear me out. We make every taxi driver buy these overpriced physical medals, basically designed for organized criminals to launder money. We issue so few of them that taxis are five times as expensive as other American cities and the medals cost six figures. And these do nothing to actually control the quality of the cabs and when Uber bypassed them, quality went up somewhat.

This was straightforward theft, a policy with zero benefit and heavy costs, whose minor purpose was to steal money for insiders and whose major purpose was purely to destroy. An overwhelming majority of regulations sold as ‘safety’ all look like this in hindsight. This is because they are nearly universally spearheaded and enforced by Looters, whose concern is never with accounting cost and benefit, rather always to sabotage the productive in the name of the underclass.

None of this is complaining for complaining’s sake. This is an optimistic article. Because all of this is operative information. It is time to act. There’s no disaster coming. It’s already happened. And America has ticked on. We’ve overcome the hardest bend in the road without even knowing it. It is only in hindsight that society comes to the consensus that Uber, X, Youtube, Spotify, Udio, and Waymo are all obviously prosocial and their enemies cartoonishly evil. Post-Looter morality revivals of journalism, medicine, manufacturing (both in and out of the West), energy, and chemical production are already in the making.

While the time for new law is around the corner, now is the time to defy noncrime doublethink. All secondary actions, enforced not by law but by social ostracization, are illegitimate and no longer carry social sanction. Plenty of new transactions, organizations, cultures, and economies are possible by punching through Looter social enforcement like the paper mache it is.

Remember that we now have functionally untraceable manufacturing and global shipping. That itself is enough to create digital or physical storefronts to undermine the looters, not to mention 3D printing. What sublegal Looter shakedown and enforcement routines can be legally undermined? How much money would be saved by disrupting those Looters? There are identifiable and semi-liquid markets for Looter disruption. In some sense, any truthful market is a market for Looter disruption.

The digital revolution has already won for speech and art. Despite censorship attempts, everyone on the internet is constantly exposed to doublethink-shattering storylines. It is no longer possible to believe the criminal underclass are the victims. As those pillars fall, Looter psychology itself will be recognized for what it is. This recognition is already happening in greater numbers than any time in my lifetime, it just isn’t evenly distributed.

The crown jewel of this disruption is to supplant the current criminal justice system, whose function is to protect criminals from civilian justice more than to protect civilians or represent their interests. First private companies take on security duties, such as private security firms or private investigators. As parallel law enforcement scales, they will find it necessary to exclude conventional law enforcement in progressive cities to respond to uncontrollable criminals with lethal force. Everyone will realize this is a great thing in hindsight, like Ubers in New York but on a civilizational scale.

So come, build miracles with me. □

Footnotes

1. https://www.fromthenew.world/p/the-philosopher-made-for-tv ↩

2. Nomos, of the Sky, you might say. ↩

3. https://archive.org/details/platos-laws-pangle ↩

4. “everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent” ↩

5. The foundational formula of Marxism. ↩

6. Pareto Improvement. ↩

7. The typical Rothbard formulation of the state. ↩

8. Without offshoring America would not be thriving - it would have already collapsed. ↩