The far right may seem to be, and in many ways is, made up of a lot of different factions, but some of them have similar goals of living in their own segregated network states based on eugenics. And in fact, the tech elites have a form of “techno rapture” beliefs that are eerily like Christian ideas of The Rapture. And the Trump administration is planning on giving away federal lands for modern day coal patch company towns where democracy doesn’t exist, and company tycoons play king dictator, and they’re trying to sell this to people on the left as the “abundance” ideology solution to housing shortages which amounts to privatization and deregulation and just disregarding environmental impacts and rejecting public health.
Wall Street Journal – Federal Land Can Be Home Sweet Home Our departments will work together to solve the housing crisis. By Scott Turner and Doug Burgum March 16, 2025 3:48 pm ET Historically, building on federal land is a nightmare of red tape—lengthy environmental reviews, complex transfer protocols and disjointed agency priorities. This partnership will cut through the bureaucracy. Interior will reduce the red tape behind land transfers or leases to public housing authorities, nonprofits and local governments.
The American Prospect – The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis November 26, 2024 What exactly abundance adherents believe varies, of course, but there are a number of broad precepts: building more housing, producing more energy, and fostering more technological innovation. None of these are objectionable goals; the differences with progressives arise, largely, in how to get there. Abundance starts from a “growth above all” mindset. The agenda’s advocates hate residential zoning laws—which, contrary to what they frequently imply, is something they have in common with us and most progressives—but also detest the National Environmental Policy Act, support fracking, oppose tenant protections, and are often deferential to the policy preferences of Big Tech.
KQED Forum – Is ‘The Nerd Reich’ Taking Over the Government? By Mina Kim 2025 Apr 2 at 10 am A group of Silicon Valley billionaires is causing chaos in the federal government by shuttering agencies, firing workers en masse and flouting legal and political norms. According to journalist Gil Duran, the chaos is carefully orchestrated, as figures like Elon Musk, David Sacks and Peter Thiel follow a playbook conceived by far right thinkers on how to take down institutions and seize power. We talk to Duran about what these tech elites – a group he calls “The Nerd Reich” – are reading, thinking and saying. Guests: Gil Duran, journalist, produces a newsletter covering the tech industry, “The Nerd Reich”
BBC Intrigue – The Immortals: 9. Nerd Rapture 2 October 2023 The immortalist movement in Silicon Valley shares a lot with evangelical religions, says Dr Emile P Torres, a philosopher and former Nick Bostrom acolyte. In both, he explains, there’s a heaven in which the faithful will experience unsurpassed bliss and delight, and an apocalypse, which will separate out the people who can go there. After a decade at the epicentre of the transhumanist research community, Emile became concerned with the number of apocalyptic stories of techno-utopia that were being shared online. Was this philosophical movement becoming radicalised? When Emile raises the question, the consequences are swift and severe. Excommunicated, harassed and threatened.
Political Research Associates Trad Values Meets Tech The U.S. Right’s Pronatalist Coalition Gaby Del Valle March 27, 2025 These oft-disagreeing factions came together in Austin, Texas, in December 2023 for the inaugural Natal Conference. The conference was the brainchild of Kevin Dolan, a former data scientist who was ousted from his job after being outed for his involvement with Deseret Nationalism, a far-right faction within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that promotes an ultra-conservative brand of Mormonism.[2] Dolan billed the conference as a way of unifying disparate movements under a single goal. “The best thing I can do to move the needle on this issue personally is just unite the clans: throw up a rally point, let people come together,” Dolan said in a podcast episode posted shortly after the conference.[3] So far, the plan appears to be working: Elon Musk reposted Dolan’s speech from the 2023 conference on X, and another conference is slated for this March.[4] In many ways, the 2023 Natal Conference was a prelude for the coalition that helped elect Trump: a motley crew of old-guard Republicans, the MAGA hat-clad New Right, and members of the tech elite.
The Canadian roots of Elon Musk’s conspiracist grandpa – Raised in Saskatchewan, Joshua Haldeman was a tech-utopian, politician and apartheid fan By Geoff Leo Mar. 20, 2025 “An ‘Invisible Government,’ working to carry out the objectives of the International Conspiracy, is operating in every country,” he wrote in his book The International Conspiracy in Health, which was published in the mid-1960s. In it, he also said the conspiracy was pushing for the fluoridation of water supplies, mandatory milk pasteurization and mass vaccination programs. Haldeman dedicated his life to fighting it. “Only by following the example and guidance of Jesus Christ will man be able to successfully combat the evil forces of the International Conspiracy and achieve the greatness for himself and his country.” Haldeman thought government was being badly mismanaged and at one point in his career, he embraced the solution proposed by a movement called Technocracy: that government should be run by scientists and engineers, not politicians. Over his lifetime, Haldeman would lead two Canadian political parties (one of which he founded), campaign against Canadian prime ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and John Diefenbaker, write a book defending South Africa’s system of apartheid and spend years flying and driving across the African wilderness with his family — hunting for the Lost City of the Kalahari.