So, zizians but unironically and as an actual political movement rather than just a bizarre internet cult.
Alternate Ideologies
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Right Accelerationism is steeped in esoterica but at core there's no real consensus on "morality" between the different branches OTL. R/Acc wants to accelerate capitalism and technology straight to neofeudalism, L/Acc wants to do the same to birth new technologies to overcome capitalism, Kaliacc just wants to bring on the end of what they see as a corrupt world, and racial accelerationism thinks identity conflicts should be accelerated to start a race war.
R/Acc and L/Acc at least make some kind of delusional sense, but racial accelerationism is literally just the same "race war" ideology that's existed in fascism since 1933 and Kaliacc seems to be a bunch of edgelords on the internet. Are they really actual ideologies? IIRC, Kaliacc AFAIK also basically existed as a scam cult in order for some creep to find targets.
The first two definitely are (they both arose out of the CCRU after it dissolved). Racial accelerationism is basically a rhetorical reskinning of the old hard right canards and Kaliacc is super-memey and unserious, though it does represent a fuzzy borderland between R/Acc and the reskinned race warriors. Hence why the latter two (and auntology) are considered inherently necropolitical by Cosmicism proper.
Beatriz
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Where would the friendly ambitious nerd antipolitics of @visakanv on his blog/on twitter fit?
Discordism
Discordism :
a system in which nerds of the type who debate endlessly on discord or specialized forums about niches subjects are the one in charge
You want an effective Space programm ? Hundreds have originals ideas, some of them surprinsigly workables, to colonize the solar system in fifty years !
This very forum have people developping complexe schemes destined to ease geopoliticals tensions : put the future of middle orient in the hands of some New yorker pizzaiolo who's also a dedicated historian amateur can't do anything wrong, true ?
Of course it's a joke ideology, but still, it's an unique blend of decentralized direct democracy and technocratic crazy elitism, and I can imagine it working for some fuck-up radical movement emerging in a cyberpunk setting
All hail our New Overlords, and dont complain when taking your car to work a random day you discover that now we ride on left, redditors galaxy-brains knows what they do and if they say it statistically reduce accidents, let's go with it
a system in which nerds of the type who debate endlessly on discord or specialized forums about niches subjects are the one in charge
You want an effective Space programm ? Hundreds have originals ideas, some of them surprinsigly workables, to colonize the solar system in fifty years !
This very forum have people developping complexe schemes destined to ease geopoliticals tensions : put the future of middle orient in the hands of some New yorker pizzaiolo who's also a dedicated historian amateur can't do anything wrong, true ?
Of course it's a joke ideology, but still, it's an unique blend of decentralized direct democracy and technocratic crazy elitism, and I can imagine it working for some fuck-up radical movement emerging in a cyberpunk setting
All hail our New Overlords, and dont complain when taking your car to work a random day you discover that now we ride on left, redditors galaxy-brains knows what they do and if they say it statistically reduce accidents, let's go with it
I also thought of one more note on Cosmicist historical progression that in my headcanon is actually brought up in the Manifesto, namely the Eurocentricity of the Leviathan, even factoring in the incredibly loose definition for Feudalism as a stage of development. This is acknowledged in the text— China is brought up specifically as an example of a divergent offshoot of the Feudal stage that manages to stifle/suppress the twin developments of merchant-driven capitalism and political Liberalism while still incorporating a fierce and ideologically motivated meritocracy that characterizes the latter. Cosmicism squares the circle by arguing that even though the specific transition from the broad and all-inclusive Feudal stage to the narrowly defined Liberal one was specific to the European context, the Age of Imperialism had the effect of imposing the Cosmicist pattern of history globally, while growing interconnection and linked technological/social developments have maintained that framework and ensured that every competing model was reacting to it and incorporated as a new stage rather than an independent competing system.
Vibism
Vibism
Born out of obscure 2020s lofi youtube comments and law of attraction reddit threads, vibism is less about actual laws and more about how they are enforced. Vibists are opposed to conventional "cursed" forms of enforcement like police or pigovian taxes. Instead they believe that society can be guided through urban design, speakers projecting lofi in outdoor areas and binaural beats in enclosed areas, and leaders who project good vibes.
As Individualist Good Guys:
Vibist society is content to just... vibe. Most people in vibist society are content to spend their days studying or sunbathing and their nights in cafes or ramen shops watching the rain. Without corporation or property laws people can make money by setting up whatever business they want to try and doing it until they get bored or stressed.
As Collectivist Good Guys:
To ensure good vibes the government steps in to start subsidizing key industries and individual citizens, to try and keep everyone at a comfortable level of wealth. The President provides an example to the people by regularly working various low end jobs and finding moments of genuine joy in them, thereby maintaining a necessary level of employment.
As Villains:
How did the vibes get so fucked? Presidential talking points about how this is the best, most supportive community slow but surely turned into in group populism. Fearing negative vibrations, most vibists will no longer speak to foreigners. Yet even that is not enough, in periodic speeches the President will blame the failing economy on the hateful emotions emanating from foreign propaganda (which in turn produces more negative coverage). Citizens are also treated as hostiles, with the government maintaining good emotions through mandatory binaural beats and microtripping sessions.
Another name for the Volksgeist stage of Cosmicist historical development, encompassing the block of time from the advent of settled states to the creation of Cosmicism proper and broken into a series of five stages— Feudalism, Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism and Nihilism. See my post on it two pages back.
This is the perfect combination of hilarious and terrifying.
@Miranda Brawner, I just had a stray thought about the Ancestors of One from that ASB worldbuilding project you had 🤔 It would be a neomalthusian totalitarian state that combined a eugenics policy with a one-child one with the end goal of basically incarnating the racial oversoul into a single future individual who would be ethnarch, dictator and soul occupant of the country while being directly descended from (most) of its current citizens.
My idea was that such a movement would avoid the whole mass murder/genocide thing and just become an incredibly weird state that maintains normalized relations. The question is what happens to the Ethnarch- natural death, some attempt at biological immortality or a clone dynasty?
@Born in the USSA I guess they would try to become immortal, but would still be vulnerable to accidents and decay.
Sino-Sinaiticism
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Sino-Sinaiticism
IOTL, Hong Xiuquan failed the imperial exam four times before having a psychotic break where he became convinced that God had revealed to him the fact that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, and started a rebellion that killed somewhere in the ballpark of 20 million people.
ITTL, Hong Xiuquan passed the imperial exam and became an imperial official. He still had a psychotic break with a Christian flavor, but the resulting beliefs were somewhat different. Among them was a belief that the Chinese were descended from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, and that the actual origin point of the Han people is Mt. Sinai (hence Sino-Sinaiticism). He eventually wrote his religion down and began spreading it. It didn't become massively popular, but various elements of it can be found in that grey area of syncretism between Christianity and local Chinese religions, and this is one of those elements.
tl;dr - British Israelites with Chinese Characteristics.
IOTL, Hong Xiuquan failed the imperial exam four times before having a psychotic break where he became convinced that God had revealed to him the fact that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, and started a rebellion that killed somewhere in the ballpark of 20 million people.
ITTL, Hong Xiuquan passed the imperial exam and became an imperial official. He still had a psychotic break with a Christian flavor, but the resulting beliefs were somewhat different. Among them was a belief that the Chinese were descended from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, and that the actual origin point of the Han people is Mt. Sinai (hence Sino-Sinaiticism). He eventually wrote his religion down and began spreading it. It didn't become massively popular, but various elements of it can be found in that grey area of syncretism between Christianity and local Chinese religions, and this is one of those elements.
tl;dr - British Israelites with Chinese Characteristics.
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Sino: duh.
Sinaiticism: Mt. Sinai, where the Ten Commandments were given to the Jews.
The Chinese are Jews. Simple as. Almost all other details vary from sect to sect, but this is one of the constants alongside God and Hong Xiuquan being His latest prophet.
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