The Technolibertarian Crossover Of The German Prince Who Would Be Kaiser
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Last week, 25 people were arrested in a large-scale operation on suspicion of plotting against the Federal Republic of Germany. The Prosecution Group wants to overthrow the current government by force, abolish the German government and replace it with some kind of German Reich (the Second, not the Third, but who cares?). All this may seem confusing and carnal, but it should be noted that the conspirators are members of the defense forces and law enforcement, as well as a judge and a former member of parliament. Another prince.
When the coup succeeded, Henry XI. Von Reuss was appointed leader and head of state. The party arose out of a right-wing movement called Raisberger. ("Citizen of the Reich"). Reichsburger argues that the post-war German state is essentially a fiction and therefore has no authority. "The so-called Federal Republic of Germany ... is the legal successor of Hitler's Germany, not the sovereign German Reich," the prince said in an online video of his speech. Germany." World War II was not over; the German imperial structures were only temporary constructs created to protect the Allied occupied territory. The laws were invalid, the taxes were not enforced.
Heinrich's views are profound in this clip, but nothing new. What's more surprising is what Kaiser said: not at a far-right rally, not in a smokestack, but at the 2019 WorldWeb Forum, a new economy tech conference on the shores of Lake Zurich in Switzerland. In the video of the event, you can see the entire TED Talk production of the Future Coup Machine talking about the Rothschilds, Henry Ford and the New World Order.
"I think," said the Prince in Zurich, "I have come to find out who is behind these wars and revolutions and who benefits from them." " The Ninth Ordo Seglorum ," "replaced the monarchy with a socialist government, then communists, then totalitarian powers, keeping the people in poverty." The New York Times called these "typically anti-Semitic dog whistles ," for example. Alpine anti-Semites".
The World Wide Web Forum does not appear to be a secret far-right conference. Of course, the forum logo looks like the ring from Bond's villain; In fact, this year's theme was Scholars and Servants. But the forum attracted a veritable group of people from the tech world: Apple founder Steve Woznick, Pixar's Ed Catmull, people from Y Combinator and Google, and even Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell. Promotional materials compare Google's head of industrial design: "Think like a punk-rock version" of the World Economic Forum in Davos, possible speakers "pre-conference", "two days of fun in luxury, in the beautiful Swiss mountains, skiing, sledding, fondue, raclette They were drawn to the stage with the words.
For more than a decade, events like WorldWebForum have focused European concerns on Silicon Valley. As Caroline Daniels of the Financial Times points out, the forum aims to "promote disruptive thinking among Switzerland's business and wealth elite" and is celebrating the fact that established industries can't move fast - and stand still - in a state of flux. "How many of them fear their businesses will be disrupted," he asked an audience of nearly 600 Swiss executives. "No less than ten raised their hands," Daniel said.
Somehow this messy version includes a person who will later become an emperor. It is not clear why the prince was invited. Shortly after the existence of the world of Henry XIII. As it was understood, a person who claimed to be participating in the conference tweeted the prince; If true, Buss did not participate in the video of the event, despite the rare audience members laughing and applauding. (Event organizers removed the video of the speech, with German subtitles, from their YouTube channel on Dec. 6, the day of the attack.) One prominent right-wing blogger said the prince was invited "because someone else deleted it." "Like an influenza technician. The natural thing was to replace the German Reich with someone who believed it would never end.
At first, it seems like a narrative of how the technology industry organizes every expression into a unified performance symbol. Zion Teddy's discourses on public life often contradict the platform by making contradictory claims because they are contradictory or contradictory. The lack of content on these tech-related platforms means that sometimes crazy ideas pop up because everyone is too open-minded and too busy praising themselves to see the situation properly.
But the opening chorus of The Prince's Knights suggests that he finally understands his audience, that World War II has not ended, and that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has been killed by the Freemasons. He seems to have noticed striking similarities. "Until 1920," that is, until the family was responsible, "Gera was one of the 10 richest cities in Germany by tax rate. That's right: the monarchy was the first way to reduce everyone's tax burden."
Could it be a way for the emperor to remove power from the bureaucrats and return it to the people? In the year Until the 1920s, "everything was good and people lived happily in the kingdom led by the Reyes family," the prince explained, because the administrative structures were simple and transparent. If something went wrong, you went to Prince. Are you scheduled to appear today"? Your local, regional or European representative? Good luck!" This is a monarchy that liberals accept.
This defense of the monarchy would become familiar to 19th century conservative scholars. It will also be familiar to anyone interested in the Silicon Valley bigwigs and their right wing.
To be clear, I'm not saying this event was crypto-fascist in any way. At least I would say that the editors failed to distinguish between liberalism and neo-feudalism. You have to disagree with philosopher Jason Stanley's 2018 book How Fascism Works that "the fascist view of individual liberty is the same as the libertarian view of individual rights." But you can still accept Stanley's argument that, for a belief in hierarchy, libertarianism not only imagines hierarchies, but formalizes them. Some people are "naturally" superior, some are not, and it is not the government's job to interfere with nature.
This is important because many prominent technocrats have come to look like monarchists. Peter Thiel combines mistrust of government bureaucracy with a clear authoritarian view: startups are liberating because they are independent of state sovereignty but rule over a true aristocracy. ("A startup is basically built like a monarchy") His amanutsa, Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, believes that American democracy should be replaced by a "Caesar" man. Influential right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin, who writes under the name Mencius Moldbug, argues that democracy should be replaced by corporate technomonarchy. All of this may explain why World Wide Web developers either don't fully understand what platform they're running on, or if they do, don't really care.
While some libertarians were comfortable with monarchy, there are signs that European rights were more comfortable with free speech. Sociologists Oliver Nachtwi and Caroline Aminger conducted dozens of interviews with right-wing protesters, Vivid skeptics, and others. They described it as a new version of the authoritarian personality that liberates its subjects and seeks the destruction of its enemies: 'libertarian authoritarianism'. As Prince Henry XIII. When von Reuss appeared on stage in Zurich, he was probably two things at once: a curiosity and a sign of the times.
