September 4, 2025

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Thursday:
What are Post-Political Units (PPUs)? | September 4, 2025

Before I can answer that question let's explore post-politics again briefly: post-politics is really my vision for a world beyond the medium of mass politics or really mass mobilized opinion, and such a world used to exist, particularity prior to the 20th century, and even more so prior to the advent of the modern nation-state, in the 18th century, as the fundamental unit of political organization. Most men today, particularly in the imperial core, would take the existence of the nation-state and mass politics for granted, for with the nation-state comes the citizenship and the citizenship, the relation between the individual and the state, is the carrier of the humanist axiom: with the citizenship each man becomes an atomized individual and all the rights of man, in full accordance with the humanist axiom, applies to him under the law set forth by other men; no longer is that man a part of his particular and parochial societal unit— often the village, town, or city, in the past the city-state—instead each man is a member of a much larger state-unit, the nation-state, and as such he is inculcated with much propaganda and much talk of what a man of his caliber and form is and should be; he is no longer a man shaped and inspired by the earthly and parochial qualities of life, he is now a cosmopolitan and a member of the political caste, and this begins early and is the primary reason for compulsory education and compulsory military training, each man has to be formed into the ideal citizen, the man shaped by the nation. This process of manufacturing an obedient citizen means that the power of the elite, the revolutionary elite, can be concentrated in few hands, when in the past this was quite impossible, and no such thing as nations in the modern form exited, for in the past power was invariably spread out across the land, and often the power at its highest concentration, that is the man who wielded most power, closest to the people: in other words the king had less power than the feudal lord, and often the feudal lord had less power than the landlord. In this way power was inverted in the past, but with the advent of modern nation-states power could and was concentrated in very few hands, but in order to succeed at this the revolutionary elite, driven by the serpent, had to create within each man a sense of extra loyalty, that is to say a nationalism or a patriotism, and with that each man was granted political power, but only very limited political power, for with political power, with the citizenship and the ability to vote, each man became conscripted into the phenomena of mass politics, i.e. democracy. Post-politics then, would mean any system that isn't democratic or really any system that does not rely on the medium of post-politics to uphold the order, the celestial order, but do note that the purpose of mass politics isn't to uphold the celestial order, it is to uphold the material order. If a man is inculcated in politics, he will be so only for material reasons, and if men in the past, prior to mass politics, held their loyalty close to Earth and to the heaven at the same time, their loyalties are completely material in nature today. So, in the past there was really no such thing as post-politics, only pre-politics, but as I see it, it is very likely the case that the future will be post-political, and this will be due to several material reasons: for one, the construction of the nation-state is being undermined by the free movement of labor, products, and people, something that has and will continue to deeply challenge the notion of the nation; secondly, the informational landscape is rapidly changing as the progress of technological innovation has created a sense of mistrust among men as well as challenging the concept of objective material truth, something that mass politics relies on to some extend in order to remain stable; without any or both of those quantities—clear borders and boundaries that set nation-states apart and thus political identities, and a somewhat uniform informational landscape that keeps up the notion of democracy—the nation-state as a historical phenomena will almost certainty witter away or slowly fade into the annals of history as a new post-political paradigm emerges.

    This all brings us to post-political and really pre-political units: what are they and how will they be constituted? My definition of a post-political unit, henceforth I will refer to them as PPUs, is a unit, similar to a state, that wields some defined power over a, at least somewhat, defined area: in the past this could be a county within a feudal state, or a city-state within a feudal state, and in the future this will likely be something similar to a city-state, but there will also likely be some form of organized power over rural areas as well, and it is not unlikely that there will be very few people living in rural areas at that point, as machines and other technology will likely replace both subsistence farms and large scale producing farms. In short: PPUs will likely be constituted as city-states where most people will live, and it's likely that rural areas will be completely controlled by corporations. I also believe that something like cryptocurrencies will replace state issued fiat currencies, and it's also likely that the cryptocurrency will differ from city-state to city-state, and a person that wishes to move from say city-state A to city-state B would likely have to buy the cryptocurrency from city-state B with the cryptocurrency from city-state A, which means that a cryptocurrency market that is tied to how attractive a city-state is will likely emerge as well. I also foresee a change of the contemporary boss-worker relationship, as people will rely on cryptocurrencies to make their living: this could mean that since most things in that future will be governed by the material laws of the computer, the particular wage a man will earn will be proportional to the work he put in; that is to say that the work men and women will do in that future will yield them cryptocurrencies, and those cryptocurrencies will be their effective wage, which means that there will really be no need to pay a man for his work, since he will automatically earn his wage by solving some computer related problem, the wage you pay a worker is to allow him to use your computer to solve problems, and that means that there really will be no such thing as a boss-worker relationship in the contemporary sense, for the only power a boss will wield over a worker is how much he allows that worker to solve some computer related problem, since each solved computer problem will yield him more cryptocurrency, and this will mean that only the corporations that allow for workers to work maximally will succeed, which will further drive both economic growth and innovation. It is therefore likely, that the way these PPUs will be governed is not by the rule of the masses, but rather by the rule of cryptocurrency, which means that the more successful a city-state is, the more people will want to live there, and the more valuable the cryptocurrency associated with that city-state will become.

Madhubani painting depicting
a dancing Shiva (शिव)

    Who will rule these city-states then? Well, my guess is that these city-states will either actively undermine modern nation-states, or they will slowly emerge as the modern nation-state decays, and it's not clear to me exactly how these city-state will be ruled and who will rule them, but they will be post-political in the sense that they will not governed by conscripting masses of people into a political process, a political theater. It could therefore be the case that PPUs won't be controlled by one single organization, a corporation or some other kind of organized unit: it could be that with the emergence of technology such as Artificial Intelligence that the PPUs will simply emerge as aggregates of many different corporate or non-corporate zones that somehow manages to coexist as the computerized and artificial system grown into its own and perhaps even self-aware entity. This all could mean that we are standing not only before the dawn of post-politics, but really before the dawn of post-consciousness in the sense that power won't necessarily be wielded by human beings: power may be a state rather than a clearly defined object in the world, and that state of power may not be controlled or even understood by human beings as the computer becomes both more intelligent and more aware than human beings. This state, I predict, will be the final state of the Kali Yuga: this will be the state of singularity, when man becomes one not with the creator our Jehovah but one with the machine or rather when the machine becomes one with man, and then the world will be destroyed as we reach the culmination of the dark ages. Only very few and enlightened men will survive this time. Basically, I view post-politics as a necessary prerequisite in the material domain before we enter the final stage and post-political units (PPUs) will be a sign of this.

Reginald Drax – September 4, 2025.