Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they're troubling.

Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska’s 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they’re troubling.

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
    55·
    3 days ago

    This post had me in a bad mood all day, so I spent some time trying to understand who this guy is, since he’s essentially being paid to spy on all of us now and has the ear of many, many elected officials.

    This post is a synopsis of his book, which is a call for post-liberal, pro-American-power, anti-decadence, and defense-tech nationalism. Not exactly MAGA, not exactly neocon, and not exactly centrist Democrat, but basically saying: “the republic needs warriors, engineers, and belief.” It’s like if you took W40K and shrunk it down to a global scale.

    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      28·
      2 days ago

      This post is a synopsis of his book, which is a call for post-liberal, pro-American-power, anti-decadence, and defense-tech nationalism. Not exactly MAGA, not exactly neocon, and not exactly centrist Democrat, but basically saying: “the republic needs warriors, engineers, and belief.”

      This is typically called technofeudalism or technofascism

      • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        Pursuing feudalism in a country that famously loathes kings is a bold move, let’s see if it works out for them. It might seem like it’s working out for them at the moment. I’m not sure how long that’s actually going to last though. I think they are standing on top of a volcano of public anger and they don’t seem concerned about how the ground keeps rumbling because they are wearing lava-proof suits. I think when they actually get submerged in lava they are going to find they have many other weaknesses and vulnerable spots they didn’t realize and in fact “the goggles do nothing!”

        • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          We loathe some idealized image of kings, but there’s plenty of bootlickers here who don’t understand how billionaires are just a repackaged version.

        • merdaverse@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Technofeudalism is probably a reference to Varoufakis’ book, so more feudalism as an economic system, rather than a return to monarchy and aristocracy. The political side would just be fascism