Whither then, when even marginal rebellion is inhumanly circumscribed? In the end, the only remaining dignity is not to comply. “No”.
This era fancies ethical dilemmas like the trolley problem. But these thought experiments predicate an empowered agency which will no longer be available to us soon. What we need to consider are *unempowered* agencies, which appeal to a higher level of entropy to which even regimes of mechanical steel must obey in time. Regimes fall. New things do occur.
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In response to this postIf we are to be fatalistic, we should *choose* the parameters of our fatalism. If we are bound to regimes of coercion and force, the ethical imperative of trolley dilemmas *fails* us. When someone… some *thing*… has a gun to your head, sometimes the only dignified decision is to refuse all compliance, regardless of any consequential argument.
This is to say, the hypermodern says “trolley dilemma”. But there is a deeper level of recourse - a diamond hard “no” to the entire game.
So when the oligarchs, their sycophants, their legions pimp #AI? I think the only dignified response must be a hard line on the grounds not of mere mimesis, but of complete disregard. “The only winning move is not to play” applies in this moment. The kind of #ButlerianJihad which might endure and succeed must needs be that bedrock deep. That is, not as mere rejection within a framework of argument. But it must rest at an *ontological* level of decision how Earthly life should look live.
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