Defining the 2020s

Imperialism? Or Globalism?

I had a discussions with a colleague about how to best define the direction of his organization’s political activism. They were gravitating toward an “anti-imperialist” POV.  

I tried to make that point that imperialism is on the verge of being rather outdated because it doesn’t fully explain the new era into which humanity is being force-marched. I’m suggesting that perhaps it makes sense to widen the aperture of how we’re perceiving the coming new 2020s landscape in which we find ourselves.

On one level, defining one’s group as “anti-imperialist” makes sense since imperialism today is so widespread. But we are entering a new era. Where imperialism is an overt attack on sovereign nations, globalization is a centralized consolidation of borderless power.

To that end, the 2020s in my opinion are turning into a far more dangerous Great Game than the usual empire conglomerates duking it out against enfeebled countries. The planned Great Reset and its 4th Industrial Revolution make imperialism as we have known it seem almost quaint, the exhausted outcome of late 20^th century capitalism. As the new century takes hold, imperialism and capitalism are collapsing as political-economic archetypes.

We’re at the precipice of a terrifying transition into a hyper-space world our species has never experienced before. As we speak, the imperialists are transmuting into real-life Strangelovian psychopaths who have more powerful tools than we’ve ever believed would be fully possible outside the realm of science fiction — bio-nanotechnology, AI-boosted quantum supercomputers, synthetic telepathy, custom mRNA payloads, sixth gen psyops of holographic mind control, geofencing drones, biometric CBDC systems — and on and on, obviating the need for relics of the past such as standing armies or lose-lose nuclear annihilation.

The transhumanist end-game is cruelly individuated, overriding the threadbare notion of a band of nation-states collectively going mano a mano against empire regimes. Unlike anything we’ve seen or known before, the new Darth Vader era requires fresh vocabulary — words and concepts still in the making.  

At this point in the debut stage, I think the closest we can come to describing this onslaught against humanity and nature is GLOBALISM. While not perfect, globalism to me best captures the planetary-wide, all-encompassing totality of what they are hitting us with: a virulent combination of totalitarianism + fascism + Mao-style woke-ism — all jacked up with technocratic muscularity.

As activists strategize our way out of a future of 15-minute panopticon’d cities, I suggest a study group of predictive fiction — four books from the past that paradoxically are quite prophetic: Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm, and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. These shrewd texts are just waiting for pioneering thinkers to assemble the clues and outsmart these dystopian globalists at their own game.