The expression “Reich do Silicon” was created by journalist Corey Pein in a text published on The Baffler on authoritarian ideas that were beginning to be successful in Silicon Valley. In 2014, when the article came out, it seemed a rhetorical exaggeration to create a good title.
This is no longer the case.
The richest man in the world took advantage of the possession of, the most powerful man in the world, to announce his adherence to the ideas of the end of the European 1930s.
There is only one possible interpretation for the greeting of Musk, and it is the obvious. If you disagree, repeat the gesture inside a synagogue and see if anyone doesn’t understand what it is about.
But Musk was not the only representative of the Silicon Reich in. As showed in, the new US Vice President Jd Vance is an enthusiast of authoritarian ideas who prospered among technology billionaires.
Vance has already quoted with approval Curtis Yarvin, who signs his posts as Mencius Moldbug. Yarvin argues that Americans overcome their “dictatorphobia” and accept the monarchical government of a CEO. After all, he says, companies are more efficient than governments.
It is embarrassed to have to refute, but come on: what makes the efficient firms are market institutions, competition, the vast volume of information transmitted by prices. Where all this is impossible, or for some undesirable reason, the government must act.
If you put a CEO governing a state, he will not be able to count on the market to tell you what to do; From then on, their chances of success will be the same as any politician.
But the main inspiring of the new US deputy is Peter Thiel, a great investor of. In 2009, Thiel wrote an article for the conservative Think Tank Cato Institute in which he stated that he no longer believed freedom and democracy were compatible.
It was 2009, a year after the Great Crisis of 2008, of which the world, and the legitimacy of democracy, has not yet recovered. The crisis was entirely caused by the lack of regulation of the private financial sector, which generated in voters a greater interest in state intervention in the economy. This is what Thiel depressed, who obviously thought the crisis had been caused by the government.
In fact, Thiel regretted that the conditions for the exercise of freedom had been weakening since the 1920s. Two things would have difficulty electoral success of Libertarians like him: the increase in the number of social programs containers and the conquest of the right to Vote for women.
Given this picture, Thiel proposed three exits: cyberspace, which was still no one, the expansion to other planets, and Seasteading, the creation of artificial countries in the middle of the ocean where Utopia Libertarian could be implemented.
Personally, I am a great advocate that idiots move to abandoned oil platforms in international waters, because this is usually far from where I am.
But Musk, Thiel and the rest of the Silicon Reich found in Trump a chance to perform their utopia without rules or democracy in American territory.
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