Chaotic Convergence

April 5, 2025 saw some of the biggest protests in US history, with more scheduled, against the Trump/DOGE dismantling of government. Organizers say they have three demands: “an end to the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption of the Trump administration; an end to slashing federal funds for Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs working people rely on; and an end to the attacks on immigrants, trans people, and other communities.”

In October 2002, the US Congress passed a resolution granting George W. Bush the authority to use military force against Iraq. February 15th, 2003, saw the largest peace demonstrations the world had ever witnessed. Fourteen million people stood up against the Iraq war, and had zero effect. The war began on March 20, 2003, when the US, joined by the UK, Australia, and Poland, initiated a "shock and awe" bombing campaign. Not only had it already been proven that the war was based on bogus intelligence—that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons—but none of the perpetrators of the war in the US administration ever faced legal consequences.

Kurt Vonnegut, on the early 1970s anti-Vietnam War protests: “Every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."

The Climate Catastrophe and the Rise of the Tech Broligarch Police State

The United States, along with the rest of the world, stands on the precipice of an unprecedented ecological collapse. Climate scientists have sounded the alarm for decades, and their reports paint a dire picture: 2025 has a 99% chance of being the hottest year on record, and Blue Ocean Events at both poles are likely to trigger runaway climate change by 2026. These cascading effects threaten not just isolated ecosystems but the very web of life itself. Research from Flinders University and Scientific Reports underscores the "domino effect" of species extinction, where the loss of one organism—like a bee—can doom interdependent species, such as the plants it pollinates, potentially culminating in the annihilation of all life on Earth. With extinction rates already 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background levels due to human activity in the Holocene epoch, the Powers-that-Be face a stark reality: civilization as we know it cannot endure this accelerating crisis without radical transformation.

Geostrategy emphasizes securing resources and territorial control to maintain power. This essay argues that US leaders, privy to these scientific projections, have concluded that the nation’s survival demands a drastic restructuring of society. Unable to halt the exponential growth of environmental devastation—epitomized by physicist Albert Bartlett’s warning about humanity’s failure to grasp the exponential function—they have opted for a geostrategic pivot. The government is laying the groundwork for a police state that will evolve into a constellation of libertarian tech broligarch fiefdoms. This new order, encompassing North America, Greenland, and parts of Central and South America, will prioritize the preservation of a technocratic elite while managing the inevitable die-off of the masses deemed expendable in an AI-driven, post-labor world.

The Climate Crisis as a Catalyst for Control

The science is unambiguous. The loss of honeybee colonies—projected to decline by up to 70% in 2025, according to Washington State University entomologists—threatens 75% of the world’s fruits, nuts, and vegetables. This collapse, combined with the synergistic extinction dynamics described by Dr. Giovanni Strona and Professor Corey Bradshaw, signals an ecosystem breakdown that could render vast swathes of the planet uninhabitable. A mere 5-6 degrees of global warming, Strona warns, could wipe out most life when co-extinction cascades are factored in. The Blue Ocean Events looming in 2025-26 will amplify this chaos, unleashing methane releases and sea-level rise that will devastate agriculture, infrastructure, and coastal populations.

Government agencies like the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with politicians briefed on these classified reports, understand that traditional democratic governance cannot manage such upheaval. Mass migration, food shortages, and civil unrest will overwhelm liberal institutions already strained by economic inequality and political polarization. The Holocene extinction, driven by human overpopulation and overconsumption, demands a response beyond incremental reforms—a response that, as the Royal Society suggests, requires a "giant change in human culture." Yet, rather than curbing growth or reducing consumption, the Powers-that-Be appear to have embraced a darker strategy: consolidation of power and resources under a militarized, technocratic regime.

The Geostrategic Blueprint: Police State to Fiefdoms

Geostrategy involves leveraging geographic, economic, and military advantages to secure a nation’s interests. In this context, the US is poised to extend its influence across North America, Greenland (a resource-rich Arctic foothold), and parts of Central and South America, where climate refugees and destabilized governments offer opportunities for domination. The first step is the establishment of a police state, which has been underway since the Newspeakian PATRIOT ACT of 2001. Mass public- and private-sector layoffs, a crashing stock market, and spiking consumer prices have eroded societal stability. President Trump’s administration, emboldened by deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy, is dismantling agencies like Health and Human Services while ignoring judicial oversight—evidenced by the deportation of 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador despite a federal court order. Historian Quinn Slobodian identifies this as a convergence of Wall Street-Silicon Valley interests, anti-New Deal conservatism, and right-wing accelerationism, a toxic brew that thrives on chaos.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 looms as a tool to crush dissent, with speculation that it may be invoked by April 20—Hitler’s birthday, coincidentally—following a report from Trump appointees Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem. Militarized police and private security forces, potentially backed by masked operatives abducting citizens to gulags, will enforce order as protests are labeled "terrorism." This authoritarian framework aligns with Curtis Yarvin’s neoreactionary vision of a CEO-like monarch dismantling democracy to create a neo-feudal society. Influential figures like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, tied to Trump and the tech elite, see this as a stepping stone to their techno-utopian ideal: a world where AI and robotics render the 99% obsolete, relegating them to "useless eaters" or, in Yarvin’s chilling proposal, virtual confinement.

Accelerationism and the Tech Broligarch Vision

The ideology of accelerationism, as articulated by Nick Land and co-opted by right-wing extremists, underpins this transformation. Land’s belief that capitalism’s disintegrative forces should be unleashed to explore the unknown dovetails with the tech broligarchs’ ambitions. In a world where climate change accelerates resource scarcity and population collapse, they envision fiefdoms—self-sustaining enclaves controlled by libertarian CEOs like Musk and Thiel. These enclaves, fortified by advanced technology and private security, will hoard arable land, water, and energy while the masses face starvation and disease. Musk’s dismissal of the 99% as a "parasite class" and Yarvin’s call for a technocapital singularity reveal a sado-masochistic fantasy of mass suffering as a necessary purge.

The fiefdoms will span a geostrategic empire, exploiting Greenland’s minerals and Central America’s destabilized territories. This aligns with Land’s capitalist monarchism, where democratic constraints are jettisoned to accelerate a technocratic singularity. The police state serves as a transitional phase, ensuring compliance until the broligarchs can fully consolidate power. Trump’s promise that "your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen" and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s assertion that "power is the only thing that matters" signal this shift is imminent.

The Human Cost and the Inevitable Collapse

For the 99%, the outlook is grim. Epidemics, unaffordable housing, and food scarcity will decimate populations already weakened by economic ruin. The Royal Society’s call for reduced birth rates and consumption among the wealthy is ignored as billionaires chase space tourism and private empires. Protests, once a check on executive overreach, are neutered by surveillance, repression, and public apathy, as noted in the analysis of Trump’s unchecked defiance of the judiciary. The climate crisis, exacerbated by a global trade rupture and the dollar’s decline, will leave the masses in Hoovervilles, subject to brutal suppression.

The broligarchs’ reliance on interconnected ecosystems—however fortified their fiefdoms—overlooks the cascading extinctions that could render even their enclaves unsustainable. As Bradshaw warns, ignoring co-extinction underestimates the pace of collapse by up to tenfold. The Powers-that-Be may secure temporary dominance, but the exponential unraveling of life on Earth could defy even their technocratic hubris. They must be calculating that, by the time life on Earth is untenable, they will have orbiting, greenhouse-equipped, solar-powered space stations, to which they can deliver the planet’s remaining supplies of fresh water, etc., and survive indefinitely.

In conclusion, the US government and its tech allies, armed with climate science, have chosen not to avert catastrophe but to ride it. The police state and broligarch fiefdoms represent a geostrategic gamble to preserve power amid ecological ruin. Whether this gambit succeeds or collapses under its own contradictions, the cost will be measured in the extinction of species, societies, and perhaps humanity itself.