​This is of course true. Many humans are broken. A sizable percentage of humanity can’t work, can’t function in society, is predisposed to crime, is disabled, is neurologically atypical, or downright dangerously for other human people. A good example of this particular insanity is sociopathy – the inability of a person to feel proper civilized empathy towards other people, or acknowledge basic decency. If we have too many people that start practicing what they feel we end up with a surge in “crime”, “anti-social behavior” or ultimately in the confluence of state power and cultivation private privilege – i.e. “fascism”.

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

– Peter Thiel.

Human civilization appears to possess an uncanny cyclical character. In times of resource, territorial and technological expansion of prosperity culture acts “progressive”, people that are part of the culture sincerely share resources, and society increases the allotment of freedom and personal rights, but best of all progressive society cultivates forms of common justice. The ascendant aspect of human society was very visible after world war 2, when all was love & peace… By and large people in the post-war era were more conscionable of how horrible humans could act to one another, and how this should never become the norm. Sadly, there’s also a phase of downward trajectory in human society. My belief is these two polarities are a genetic aspect of the human collective psychology.

In a historical phase where there is a downwards trend, there is an increasingly manifest trend in society to move towards conservatism, authoritarianism, xenophobia, defensive politics and sharply veer away from democracy and human rights. My country is no stranger to this ‘impositional’ paternalism, with the likes of Geert Wilders, who open practices a flavor of populism we don’t ordinarily see outside select parts of the middle east. It is no surprise that Geert gets his money from the AEI and from certain investors, as he is espousing an ideology that thrives on political control by fomenting feudal conflict. The same radical libertarian ideologies keep popping up around Geert. People such as Wilders and the PVV are not generally the most agreeable of humans. And now he will end up cooperating with the likes of the French Front National, who are even less “agreeable”.

Geert and his Freedom Party is however symptomatic for the populist, culturally retrograde aspect of the human psyche and human culture exhibited in periods of perceived crisis and pessimist. I would qualify this negative mindset as Autumn Mind, whereas I would typify the human psychology of optimism and growth and optimism and Spring Mind. In Autumn Mind the pervasive culture is hostile, conservative, authoritarian, xenophobic, anti-feminist, not very predisposed towards democracy and human rights. In the Spring Mind, the pervasive culture is inclusive, welcoming, experimental, democratic, prone towards dialogue and inclined towards extending justice and acknowledging human rights.

In this world view people like Peter Thiel, who have been quite successful in business due to a narrow band of aggressive strategies, are locked in an “Autumn” mindset. Peter is not alone in this, and others are alreadypreaching the evangelical message of this mindset. There might be financial gain for these people, since Peter Thiel is a very rich human being, and to spread the ideas of someone like Thiel might have proven rewarding for his close friends. And he isn’t the only one in this ideological framework. The sinister and malevolent Koch Brothers espouse similar radical political ideas and degenerate much further in to political right wing aggression.

“If the right-wing billionaires and apostles of corporate power have their way, public schools will become ‘dead zones of the imagination,’ reduced to anti-public spaces that wage an assault on critical thinking, civic literacy and historical memory.” – Henry Giroux, 2013.

The onslaught of the Far Right has quite serious implications for Transhumanism, but more rational Transhumanists and Techno-Progressives shouldn’t be too overly concerned about these implications…. provides you aren’t too landlocked to the US…. In comparison I present you with the example of the collapse of the soviet union, and I will show you the examples of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.

In the mid 1980s it was obvious that the Soviet Union was close to collapse, and select elements of the leadership of the Soviet Union were smart enough to acknowledge this imminent decline. Fitting with my analysis, Soviet society entered a sharp extistential crisis right in to a pervasively Autumn Mindset, and even to this day this paradigm is still part of the state doctrine. Similarly defensive ideologies are prominent in Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Greece, Singapore, Japan, and even North Korea.

The collective human psyche exhibits a pathology dealing with diminishing collective resources. Complex human society has all throughout history proven completely incapable dealing with shrinkage. This pathology manifests routinely in a fear of useless eaters, and other minorities that appropriate national treasures that “do not rightfully belong to them”. These ultra-defensive ideological states invariably direct hostility to progressive or “egalitarian” ideologies, as perceived by them, even inside the confines of strictly communist systems. Under Stalinism the enemy were the Bourgeois Anti-Revolutionaries, while under McCarthyism the enemy were Communism Revolutionaries. If you know what to watch for the image fits consistently with facts on the ground, anywhere in the world.

This mechanism has dire implications, as it has become rather self-evident the United States are in an irreversible societal decline, even compared to the rest of an already severely crisis wracked world. Of course few people in the US would be able to acknowledge or debate this, even though people like Chris Martenson, Martin Ford, Dmitry Orlov, Steven Molyneux, Max Kaiser, Chris Hedges, Ron Paul, Peter Schiff are making a damn good attempt to make this debatable, each for their own respective reasons.

The beltway won’t have these topic on the Mainstream News, since open debate about the US being grotesquely insolvent will have dire and immediate consequences for the stability of the US dollar. I have written about this before, in nauseating detail.

To extend the metaphor of the USSR collapse having been obvious in the mid 1980s, a similar (if not more severe) collapse of the United States as a political entity has now become inescapable and obvious. The writing is in the sky in bright pyrotechnic letters.

So the Autumn Mindset has been governing Russia for more than two decades now. Mother Russia under Czar governance made a false start with Boris Yetlsin, and he privatized the country in to the hands of organized crime and consistently murderous oligarchs. It isn’t a stretch that the same is already happening in the United States, and the anti-democratic mindset that goes with it is in overdrive.

Hobbes used to allege in the 17th century in his work Leviathan. Hobbes was terrified after having received first-hand accounts of the French revolution. In this regard Hobbes is no different than the people of Israel, who will have safety from “Ze Palestians” at any cost (up to the point they start exhibiting national socialist mental traits!), or certain radicals in US society, who insist “the US must nuke Iran immediately”. These are universal fear based pathologies of the human psyche and if you watch for the signs these become self-evident regardless of where in the world you are.

Democracy was implemented as an instrument to protect the majority against the predations of privileged minority, period. The introduction of Democracy has consistently curtailed the “freedoms” of monarchs in Europe. A monarch is nothing different than someone very rich whose privilege is ensconced in common law by birth, or by “divine right”. If you state that democracy curtails freedom, it is the same as stating that an obligatory flood insurance curtails personal freedom to drown. Tyrants (and Saddam Hussein or Vladimir Putin are no exception) consistently play elements of society against each other. Tyrants consistently construct a mythology they are indispensable for the functioning of society, and the absence of tyrants as a structuring agent would be catastrophic for society. Part of this myth are the creation of enemies of the desirable ideology, and “necessary wars” against an implacable enemy. Ze Communists!

Sadly, when some people in the US (like Peter Thiel and his domesticated minions) espouse an eschatological mythology of conquering popular governance, and when you affirm that in fact the United States are collapsing they are correct in their assessment. They must take these actions, to protect their privilege from predations of boundless unwashed hordes of legally entitled welfare queens, pensioners, lazy unemployed drug users, illegal immigrants … and so forth.

This is what the Tea Party is all about – a political instrument created by the privilege (very) few directed at protecting the interests of these same (very) few against the consequences of (imminent) societal collapse. “Teabaggers” are quite often people that are absolutely sure they know how to run society, and they are equally sure other people do not, quite often by virtue of financial success in the past, or by alleged qualities of their genes – or the color of their skin. This should be very familiar rhetoric for people in western Europe, divine right and all. These people will be first to label Anon, Wikileaks, Occupy, Zeitgeist as potential troublemakers or “terrorists”, and send their legally appointed caretakers take appropriate action. By whatever means necessary.

The United States can’t do otherwise, much as Russia under Putin can’t do any different than it has done for a decade. It is the fate of simpleminded countries who are terrified of imminent civil war. These countries lose the ability for civilized management for a while, and this degeneracy simply a sad thing. But eventually the pendulum of history has a liberal bias, and democracy will return, even in the US. Maybe in the 2030s, after they dealt with all this horrible societal collapse business.

They’ll learn what matters, eventually.