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When there is no limit to the number of mega yachts one can own, or the fledgling democracies one can dip into a vat of toxic waste, or the adoration one can receive from internet jesters dying for the king’s approval, only one thing – I would guess – holds any interest. Eternal life, the permanent defeat of death, is the last thing our oligarchs can’t buy. They can buy elections and entire nations and, soon – maybe – they can own whole planets on which we can toil forever (all this talk about interplanetary consciousness is bullshit; they just want Walmarts on Mars). But death, that determined little fucker, looms over it all. I very much appreciate the folks supporting BFT. Consider subscribing for $3 or $5 a month, or leaving a tip ! It’s why freak-of-the-millenium Bryan Johnson drains his blood every day and posts online about sometimes taking his children’s blood and the duration of his erections as he tries to de-age. Perhaps no man in history has ever thought about his penis so much. He sincerely believes ours will be the first generation to conquer death. We at Bad Faith Times are looking into whether Bryan has ever read a history book about others who have made similar proclamations, only to be devoured by worms underground. Johnson strikes me as the Most Bored Man In The World, and he’s not alone. Elon Musk, among those oligarchs who want to establish a libertarian utopia on Mars with enslaved people and everything, has also grown tremendously bored with his hideous levels of unprecedented wealth. Instead of running one of his government-subsidized businesses making shit products, he’s decided to run the world, starting with the United States, which was easier to overthrow than anyone could have guessed. All it took was a measly $250 million donation to an openly fascist presidential candidate and a team of teenager hackers and the most powerful nation in human history fell to its knees within days and is now functionally conquered by the world’s richest man, controlling the public discourse with every online post and acting as dictator: Ignoring court orders, rendering the legislative branch powerless – the kind of shit that might make fellow dictators seethe with jealousy. Musk is by far the most powerful person alive today . Musk at his core is an accelerationist. Accelerationism is a complex pseudo-ideology, but at its core lies the belief that if a system is doomed to fail, efforts must be made to make that system fail faster. Charles Manson was an early accelerationist, trying to hurry along America’s Great Race War with a series of high-profile murders that would be blamed on black folks. Gun massacres – including the one at a mosque in New Zealand six years ago – have been committed by accelerationists hoping to rush the end of multiculturalist globalism. Tech freaks who abide by this core principle of accelerationism have long seen democracy as a system doomed to fail, not because that is necessarily true, but because tech oligarchs need democracy to fail if they are to achieve the anti-human dream. They are now speed running the process of small-d democratic collapse. You see it in the headlines every day. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .