Notes From The Circus – The Coming Clash of Civilizations From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat Mike Brock Oct 19, 2025 The system really is managed by people who dismiss your experience as insufficient understanding of their sophisticated analysis. Neo-reactionaries exploit this brilliantly. They say: democracy doesn’t work because most people aren’t capable of self-governance. We need hierarchy instead—rule by the intelligent few who understand complex systems. And they point to technocratic elite as proof: look at these experts running everything, dismissing ordinary concerns, insisting their metrics show success while your life falls apart. We’re just being honest about what already exists. This is why the technocratic center is completely clueless about the civilizational clash unfolding. Their framework literally cannot process regime change. They can optimize within systems but can’t recognize when systems themselves are under attack. When someone says “constitutional democracy is the problem,” the technocratic frame translates to “wants different regulatory approach.” When someone publishes blueprints for monarchy, they read “provocative intellectual exercise.” When someone invokes “extra-constitutional,” they hear “Trumpist rhetoric that will moderate.” They cannot process that one side has explicitly rejected the entire framework of democratic governance. So they keep trying to find sensible compromises between actually incompatible positions. Keep insisting both sides went too far and we need balanced centrism.
The suggestion for the question to put to would be representatives and leaders is exactly what speaks to people about No Kings. Mike Brock suggests: “Building coalitions across traditional left-right lines around a simple question: do you think ordinary people can govern themselves? Making the actual choice visible: we’re fighting about whether to have citizens or subjects.”
I’m asking all of my elected representatives this: Do you think ordinary people can govern themselves? Do you believe in a government for the people and by the people?
Title: The Abolition of Work Author: Bob Black Date: 1991 The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren’t free like we are have to live in police states. These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing. And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace.
I think many of us have been living only halfway from feudalism. The tech tycoons, the Project 2025 proponents, the Trump cronies, and the right-wing are suggesting we go all the way back to a type of monarchy, except this time incorporating the worst of capitalism with even worse company towns.
https://chloehumbert.substack.com/p/no-kings
Unfortunately they’re not the only ones who see themselves as separate and above the people. Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro has been pushing for taking away local self-governance through RESET. And local elected officials of both parties have been signing “economic development” nondisclosure agreements to keep data center projects secret from the people who will be harmed by them using the taxpayers’ own money.
These people really are way out there. They want weird medical stuff for rich people to try to live forever while getting rid of healthcare and regulation of healthcare that the rest of us rely on.
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