Help me, I'm going insane

No retard, you always were batshit insane.

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Anarchism is the only framework in which transhumanism makes any sense. Without anarchism, class divisions are inevitably magnified by human augmentation. We're seeing it already, to some extent, with high-frequency trading and so forth; technological tools enabling the upper classes to squeeze more value out of markets and add it to their coffers. What a nightmare a Singularity under Capitalism would be. The rich would not only become immortal, they would become superior. Superior intellects, capable of detecting patterns of economic activity with superhuman alacrity and dominating the market in perpetuity. The effect is a self-reinforcing cascade. Their superiority would bring them more wealth, and their wealth would bring them more superiority. The same also applies to other systems of governance. Any ruling class would inevitably augment themselves above their serfs.

Why do people insist that this is the case? The only things we need to make this happen are extractable mineral/biological resources, energy, labour, and information processing capacity. The necessities of life are overproduced, if anything. I swear people are stuck in an 1850s mindset with regard to humanity's productive capacity. Which of the above things do we lack today?

Full post-scarcity communism (of which the whole Venus Project/resource-based economy utopian ideology is just a philosophically-impoverished version) has been in the realm of near-term possibility for decades now. Productivity has consistently outstripped demand growth in every sector of the economy, which has driven capitalists to increase the rate of consumption to keep up (ie through planned obsolescence) or else to artificially restrict production to prevent price crashes.

Face it, capitalist productive relations are the only thing standing between humanity and full communism - talk of the necessity of 'full automation' or replicators or what have you is the manifestation of minds that refuse to accept the actuality of the revolution. They have to artificially place fanciful futuristic restrictions on the development of communism to cover the fact that they refuse to truly accept the possibility of capitalism's demise.

Stopped reading there.

Shut the fuck up, I know you don't know jack shit about technology. Sage.

You 'feel too much, and think too little. That's the problem. That was always the problem. They can't control you only if you do not succumb to fear.

nice blogpost

The fact that you disagree with sections of the left-wing does not make you of the right-wing. Don't be so simplistic, there is nuance to politics and ideology.

I recommend reading some theory, clarifying your own ideas, and then you will no longer have your own politics confused by the politics of others.

Neoliberals are center-right at best, just because they're to the left of the far-right conservatives doesn't make them leftists.
Many developed countries don't even have any sort of genuine leftist groups with any meaningful influence in government any more, even the ones that used to be were subverted and shifted to the right like the UK's Labor party under Tony Blair.
You say that you're shifting to right because douchebag neoliberals are selling out like they always have but that's exactly what they want- just look at all the reactionaries of the aut-right who got duped into believing they were being "anti-establishment" by supporting one of the most pro-corporation, pro-military industrial compex, anti-worker presidents in living memory. Its one thing to oppose the warmongering corporate shills masquerading as "leftists" like most of the Democratic party and the like- hell, most of us here feel the same way- just don't let yourself fall into the false dichotomy of choosing between them or another group that's just as bad if not worse.

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Well, seeing as I am a diesel mechanic and work on ships, I actually know a lot more about technology than the average person.

I know that developing new technology requires education, discipline, teamwork, infrastructure and funding. It requires hierarchical control of the parties responsible.

But, you see, things are not so simple and clear-cut. Zuckerberg is talking about augmented reality glasses replacing phones, and Elon Musk wants everyone to know about his fancy neural lace plans. Baby steps towards the inevitable, and with it, the breakdown of society as we know it. It's only a matter of decades before things like working brain-computer interfaces and implantable corneal displays become fairly commonplace. A transhuman does not require a team of people to carry out a project beside them. They don't require teamwork or hierachical control. They can have drone-controlled robot ancillaries do it instead, as though they were an extension of their own body. They can achieve the same level of productivity as an unaugmented individual cajoled to action by a strict hierarchy, all on their own, or possisbly even surpass the capabilities of a group of unaugmented individuals. This problem only compounds itself as the tech improves.

This poses issues not only for capitalism, but communism as well. Even under communism, some degree of interdependency between people is required in order to maintain social cohesion. The fundamental struggle at the core of all economic systems is that people need things from other people, be it labor, services or products. How do you manage a society of superhumans where everyone is self-sufficient and no one needs anything from anyone else? They don't get sick, so they don't need doctors. They don't drive - they commute in cyberspace - so they don't need cars or roads or gasoline, either. Why would they pay taxes for services they don't use? Crossing that threshold is the same as disenfranchisement from society. It could never work in a social order that requires active participation.

Anarchism, however, accounts for the idea of government being as granular as individuals are.

Yes, absolutely correct. They aren't really left-wing at all. The neolib/neocon establishment is made up of centrists and elitists who care nothing for the class struggles we face. They always love to drag out the Horseshoe Theory whenever you try to tell them how corrupt their system is. You tell them you're far-left, and they insist that makes you the same as the far-right. They are the ones who lack any grasp of nuance.

Nigga wut?

College kids.

It’s literally American liberals doing this, they are lightyears away from left-libertarianism.
Where the fuck does this happen outside your fantasies?
This claim is going to require some hefty proof. I’m finding trouble following your line of thought OP, I don’t know where you’re getting all of this stuff because it seems to be straw men and figments of your imagination.