Progressive Technology

In the Anglosphere we are all Progressives in a very spiritual sense in so far as we have all acquiesced to be governed by a set of parameters that seeks to expand the sphere of Statist authority based on the supposed rational right to rule of bureaucratic expertise

The State is Progressive Technology - and funnily enough Khomeinism recognised this implicitly in the 20th century. Khomeini who argued that the needs of the State outweighed those of "secondary ordinances" like prayer - this was snuck in using the heuristic of the Maqasid

The Administrative State morphing into the Cybernetic State is to merely travel along the highway of Progressivism - naturally one can witness aesthetic, ethical, monetary and cultural effects downstream

The trouble and great dilemma is that Progressivism is understood not just as one theory amongst many - it has become meta-theory, an arrangement that is taken as the only way to do things, the only way to sensibly rule

Regardless of the nomenclature you wish to use - in the 20th century it was the Administrative State, Bureaucratic State, Deep State etc that created the edifice of the world some of us live in - the good with the bad - and it's not possible to disentangle and separate them

The Cybernetic State now looms over those with the capacity to pursue it and there is no real alternative to it at present - is the spiritual successor to what has come before it

One person or even school of thinkers cannot be expected to propode an alternative to something as complex and vast as Progressivism - perhaps some brave souls in the future may be unable to untangle the web

The antithesis of Progressive Technology is not to propose another type of statism which the classical Islamists attempted but to transcend it - the means and methods for this will take years perhaps decades to iterate and refine - and it will be hugely unpredictable

Currently, the legacy 20th century Deep State seeks transition to the Cybernetic - this decade feels like a "pause" to develop the foundations of decentralised techniques that could help those who come after us

Protocols such as Bitcoin are worthy of consideration because it dissolves Statist authority and to this insightful thread I would argue that yes acting outside of the purview of the State is perhaps the determining value for all Bitcoin-esque protocols

Evollaqi @Evollaqi

Of course this is hyperbole.

The idea is that the defining components of crypto - decentralised ledgers etc - provide objective value by providing a (supposedly) secure and anonymous way to transact outside the purview of the state. (7/12)

The other practical course is of course like the GCC is currently embarking on is accelerationist development - let's just celebrate the Cybernetic State with the adhaan playing in the background and let LLMs create automated Maqasid-fiqh

Brad Watson's brilliant work "Progressivism - The Strange History of Radical Idea" is important. Here is a small extract:
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