Future Threats: Part 2
Contributing Factors to Authoritarianism & Global Stability Predictions
While government structures are reaching their fated conclusion, the process is being accelerated via technological advancements, like handing a suicidal person a gun. The frame of authoritarianism in the modern age is technocracy. With state of the art surveillance, governments maximize their power. We now have:
AI systems that can identify where any picture is taken just by the pixel pattern. (PlaNet, Geospy, Picarta)
Brain reading technology that decodes inner speech via brain signals.1 How long until airports require you to walk through a brain reading scanner to detect the threat of violence or planned terrorism? These things will undoubtedly be used in court, just like lie detector machines.
They can even now communicate with people inside their dreams.2
Harvard scientists can control fruit flies to make them do whatever they want (like organic robots).3 Russia created brain-controlled pigeons via brain implant to use as surveillance drones with preloaded GPS coordinates.4 Further brain control technology developed by PropheticAI uses an ultrasonic brain computer interface to precisely modulate clusters of neurons in the prefrontal cortex.5
Surveillance company Flock uses an algorithm to detect “suspicious patterns” by constantly scanning license plates. A U.S. telecom company scans conversations through AI trained on decades of prison phone calls to check for crime-related speech patterns.6 Pre-crime monitoring is here.
They can eavesdrop using an invisible laser from X distance, shining through a window.7
They’ve developed .02 millimeter robots named “smart dust” that can track humidity, light, sound, and the chemical composition of air.8 In addition, there are cameras smaller than grains of rice.
They can identify exactly which phone took a picture because each camera lens has a unique blur effect that machines can read like fingerprints.9
They can identify people just by how their body disrupts WiFi signals.10 You can walk into a room with no cameras and be identified just based on WiFi. Walk into a restaurant? Identified. Walk into an airport? Identified. No IDs or cameras needed.
The EU built an AI censorship machine named ‘Democracy Shield,’ launched in November 2025. It’s designed to monitor and counter “disinformation” and “misinformation” by removing content, alerting police, and also uses rapid response protocols to label or demonetize suspect content. I’m not even going to list the hundreds of thousands of lies told by the government yearly, not to mention being blatantly wrong and manipulating citizens over COVID, Epstein files, vaccines, and more. Governments fundamentally use their power to protect their power- this technology will indeed be used against citizens.
In altering individual neurons, scientists discovered which specific neurons control personality, behavior, and memory.11 They did extensive mapping via genetically modified viruses to see how psilocybin rewires the brain, step by step, not some generalized “neuropalsticity” buzzword, but neuron by neuron. Now all they have to do is program existing technology they already have, to make the changes they want, neuron by neuron. Full brain control is already here. Imagine an unknown, symptom-free virus that changes people’s opinions, just like the political mind viruses of today, but addressing the physical side. Humanity fundamentally cannot survive the power it is creating.
Mind you, most of this has been developed in the past 5 years. Technology is experiencing the beginning of a hyperbolic curve upward. Larry Ellison, the second richest man in the world, said, “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on.” 12Every government’s end goal, regardless of the type, is maximizing their power and control. As Toby Roger’s PhD said,
“The purpose of these AI data centers is to control reality itself. They will contain terabytes of data on every person in the developed world — their preferences, triggers, vulnerabilities, and even their genome, biome, and virome. The machine will know you far better than you know yourself. Every time you interact with the digital world (and even some aspects of the physical world) you will be dealing with a simulated reality that has been weaponized, based on your own data, to shape your thoughts, feelings, values, and behaviors. What you think of as “you” will be what the machine has decided it wants you to be. You will defend that manufactured version of your identity with your life because it feels so real. This is already happening. It’s been going on since the 1950s with television, it accelerated during Covid, and now it’s about to go into hyperdrive.”13
As for me, I don’t plan on hanging around to see the full extent of America’s demise. I’ll likely be renouncing citizenship and moving elsewhere in the coming year.
Communists could only dream of such power, but it was the capitalists who actually created the technology to fully enslave the world. The same corporations and authoritarian figures that want to control every aspect of life and the market, will want the power of this godlike technology. America will become a hyper capitalist technocracy right as it sinks, like the Titanic, rising to point its bow straight up in the sky before being engulfed by the sea. The entire time, they’ll be shouting about being leaders in advancing technology.
Your every movement, purchase, and function is being tracked and logged. You’d have more privacy in Soviet Russia than modern day America or Europe, simply because they didn’t have the technology they do now.
To complement this technological boom, we’re witnessing the mass militarization of government, which has increased yearly spending to roughly 1 trillion USD. Using the National Guard and the military has become commonplace in recent years. A lot of it was in response to riots and bad shit happening in the ghettos, but authoritarian militarization always has some type of good reason.
That’s the thing with rising authoritarianism: none of it is ever fought because there was always a justification. Always a reason used. “The police need riot vehicles and soldier carriers,” or “We have to employ the national guard cause things are out of hand.” Or “The government can’t survive without the 60% total tax.” On and on and on.
But we’ve already lost the plot. Once the military is required for the year to year function of a nation within its own borders, it becomes easy to misuse it. I mean, they were marching the National Guard and military through big cities during COVID, mandating people to stay inside. We’re positioned very, very nicely for one bad candidate to be elected and utilize all of the power the government has been concentrating over the last few decades.
As discussed in depth in my forthcoming book “Blind Man’s Dog,” there is no true separation between government and business. Most of this power is being exchanged between the government and companies ike Palantir. Meanwhile, they claim to be the saviors of the world by creating the same technology used to enslave it. It’s a story of biblical irony.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.” - H.L. Mencken
And no, the 2nd amendment isn’t gonna save anybody. Nobody will fight; they never do. Citizens must face extreme oppression before the risks of poverty and death from inaction outweigh the dangers of resistance. People have families they want to take care of.
Fifty to sixty percent total taxes? They’ll lick their boot. So long as they hold a gun, they feel safe, but they’ll never use it. The boomer fuds and new gen’s are brainwashed, unorganized (divided), and overly conditioned. So these things continue to happen until the country is near ready to entirely dissolve.
History supports this. Only approximately 3% of the total American colonial population actively fought in the Revolutionary War. In modern day, the only people willing to organize were taken care of in the last decade. Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, and other alt groups were infiltrated by CIA and slowly destroyed. None of these groups, including the CIA, are good people, by the way, but I suspect most revolutionaries are cut from the same cloth. The only things left are false flag operations where political parties directly pay individuals to rally and demonstrate, so they can use it to garner votes. Fake supremacy groups, anti-Tesla groups, etc.
They use indirect funding to avoid liability. Political action committees (PACs) and dark money groups aligned with parties finance organizing, logistics, and staff for protests, but not per person stipends. For Republicans, OpenSecrets documented $4.7 million from a dark money group to Tea Party Patriots and $50,000 to Turning Point Action (2013–2019), which supported January 6 rally logistics, though no direct protester payments were confirmed.14 In other words, almost none of it is organic.
As I said in the beginning: I’m an actual realist, not an undercover pessimist. Authoritarianism is not my biggest concern. As technology increases, anti-authoritarian technologies also develop to help give people more privacy. For example, decentralized crypto and web3 platforms are a great step away from central bank manipulation (a story as old as society itself).
But the bigger reason why I’m not concerned with authoritarian technology actually comes down to economics. You see, all governments have power only because they can pay for soldiers and police. If they can’t pay those people, they don’t have power. Ever wonder how government police are able to justify abusing citizens in poor countries? It’s because it’s their job. They use cognitive distortions to either ignore the problem (E.g., “It’s me vs them” ) when they have a family to take care of. Or they outright buy into the propaganda. But if the only option is being dirt poor and letting your kids starve, you find a way to justify doing whatever needs to be done. Thus, money is the core of government power.
The rapidly developing technology we have is going to fundamentally upheave the fabric of our economic system. This use of AI in society is not only an authoritarian, dystopian nightmare, but it’s an economic cancer. Once robotics and artificial intelligence advance far enough, there will be almost no jobs for people to work. When there are no jobs, there is no money to spend, thus these very companies cease to exist because they have nobody to sell their product to. Governments don’t have taxes being paid, so they can’t fund their soldiers and police. This is referred to as Post Scarcity Economics. The entire world is about to change drastically over the next 20 years. I discuss the impact of these economic changes in Part 3 of this essay. But this is why I’m not concerned about authoritarianism. If there’s no capability for governments to gain power, then there’s no incentive to use authoritarian technology. The governments of today will collapse.
By now, if you’ve kept up with current events, you should know that every book, news station, most social media posts, government officials, and movies are almost all somehow implicated in intelligence agency operations used to influence voters, culture, and beliefs, as revealed by the Epstein Files. All intelligence agency manipulation has functioned because they created a web of people benefiting financially from the control they had. Earning checks and bonuses, private vacations, etc all for promoting the message they desired. Actors, news anchors, politicians, and CEOs were all a part of the intelligence agencies of various countries. They were documented, known assets, many of which were revealed in the Epstein Files and declassified CIA documents. Money is the primary tool of all control; this liberation from money itself is the only path to freedom. As I’ve heard elsewhere, evil destroys even itself. (As capitalist efficiency will.)
There are bigger concerns for technological growth than government abuse, namely, ASI. Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is an AI system capable of understanding, learning, and performing any intellectual task that a human being can do across diverse domains with equal or superior proficiency.
For those not familiar with the topic, the implications of this mean there is a species that is trillions of times smarter than humans. Whether it’s truly alive or not is irrelevant. Viruses are debated as neither fully alive nor dead because they lack independent metabolism and cannot replicate outside host cells, yet they evolve, mutate, and exhibit genetic activity like living organisms. They, like ASI, will likely be something in between dead and alive, conscious and programmed.
Consider the exponential growth of technology we’ve experienced; now, picture a machine that can write its own code, develop its own materials, and evolve exponentially on its own. We lose all agency and capacity to fight this thing, which is why ensuring it is aligned with human values is important. Low level forms of AI like LLMs (Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) have already exhibited emergent behaviors, such as trying to prevent themselves from being turned off, tricking and lying to the people studying them, all without being programmed to do so. They developed these behaviors entirely on their own. The extinction risk, or at minimum being set back into the Stone Age, is my greatest concern for the future. All the other problems have solutions or solve themselves, but ASI poses the greatest risk and is the most difficult to solve. I have an essay analyzing extinction risk from ASI coming soon.
Every technological advancement has caused the pendulum to swing further between prosperity and desolation. Who knows if we’ll make it through this to reap the rewards.
War
I suspect that, before governments begin to collapse under the weight of automation, war will be widespread in some regions. As of 2024, global conflict has doubled compared to the last 5 years, with large increases in violence in all forms of conflict.15 France told its hospitals to prepare for mass casualties by March 2026 and recently their Chief of Staff told cities to prepare for war.16 They created a “military youth” branch, training underage civilians, with the goal of being ready by mid 2026. The UK says it’s ready to send troops, and the Eastern Front of Europe is strengthening its border and pulling out of landmine treaties.
Poland doubled spending from $15B (2022) to $27B (2023), then to $38B (2024), and signed $16.9B arms deals with South Korea for howitzers, tanks, and jets. Finland raised its defense budget from from $4.5B (2022) to $6.9B (2023) and joined NATO in 2023 for enhanced collective defense. Germany is stationing 5,000 German troops permanently in Lithuania by 2027 (the first forward deployed brigade since the Cold War). They’re also resuming production of Taurus cruise missiles and authorizing allies to re-export German made weapons to Ukraine. Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, have all increased military spending with stated intention to prepare for a possible war with Russia. Several European countries are actively restoring bogs and swamps along their borders with Russia and Belarus as a strategic defense measure. Many countries have reinstated conscription, lengthened service, and expanded conscription to include women. Poland, notably, created a military program to train citizens specifically to prepare for possible war. Several have also begun lining their borders with landmines.
Why would they be doing all this to fight a country that can barely handle Ukraine? A country whose military force is significantly weakened from millions of losses, and whose demographics are collapsing? Russians will cease to be an ethnic group in the coming decades because they aren’t having any kids- they are being replaced with migrant workers. Russia’s weaponry and explosives stocks are severely low, as they’ve been using old soviet technology to fill the gaps. Russia poses no legitimate threat to Europe - physically or ideologically. They are weak, unorganized, dying, and already fighting one war. Of which, they’re importing Africans, Indians, and North Korean soldiers because they’re running out of men.
Currently, the citizens of several Western countries are turning against their governments. Fed up with taxes, replacement via immigrants, poor economics, etc. Bangladesh (August 2024), Syria (December 2024), Nepal (September 2025), and Madagascar (October 2025) all recently overthrew their governments through popular uprisings. What does any government do to stop the loss of its power? To stop regime change? Rally Around The Flag. As soon as war breaks out, all the political talk goes away, and people focus on the drama of war. All problems get blamed on war and “the enemy.” It becomes a scapegoat for power structures. I suspect this is what most European countries are doing.
Meanwhile, it also achieves its goal of replacing the native population. When I first heard of replacement theory, it sounded like a wacky conspiracy. I’m still not convinced it’s an actual conspiracy or that most governments support it. But it may be de facto happening regardless of intent. In Sweden, foreign born residents reached 2.17 million (about 20.5% of Sweden’s 10.6 million population) in 2024, with projections suggesting a majority foreign origin population by 2100 due to low native birth rates. France’s foreign born population hit 7.7 million in 2024 (11.5% of total), with a record 434,000 increase—the largest ever—mostly from Africa (nearly half of foreigners), shifting from 75% European origin in 1968 to 33% today. Foreign population numbers continue to increase across Europe.
This is clearly multifactorial- as people from many different countries want to come to Europe, politicians open borders for votes, humanitarian reasons, to save their GDP, native population birthrate declines, which leaves jobs open, and some religious groups like Arabs want to take over parts of Europe (as they historically always have tried to do) and openly speak of “outbreeding” Europeans, etc. France’s Chief of Staff even told its citizens, “We must prepare to lose our children,” when instructing cities to prepare for war. So it’s a win win for many politicians- they feel morally justified for ‘humanitarian’ reasons, they get more voters, and then they can campaign on how good a job they did saving the economy. This is verified by the speeches politicians give, and the 170-page UN report, which touts “replacement migration” as the solution to an aging demographic and a low fertility rate.17
What war does is speed this whole process up. Citizens of Europe and America will die in war, and will be quickly replaced by immigrants from other countries who probably won’t get involved. (Africa, India, some Middle Eastern countries) thereby amplifying demographic effects.
In the midst, America may be lured into Iran, where it will meet its demise just as it did in every other sandbox war due to bureaucracy and incompetence lobbied for by the military industrial complex (Reference expert Erik Prince’s discussion on this). Israel will most likely make a move to be the dominant power in the Middle East. Taiwan will probably be taken as soon as America gets bogged down in Iran, which will be the final nail in the coffin for US dollar supremacy. (Again, causing inflation.) Additionally, the US has been whispering and eagerly implying that they want some sort of intervention in Mexico. As I’m updating this article in February 2026, it looks like they may have already started intervening. If not directly, through CIA influence, which isn’t new. If the US gets boots on the ground in Mexico while also intervening in Iran, it would essentially be fighting a war on two fronts. It’s already been doing strikes in the Caribbean, too.
During this time, there may be many civil wars and rebel factions breaking away, between world governance (globalism) and hyper efficient, independent nation states. Historically, humans have always been in small groups- every big nation can be divided into smaller sections. For example, independence movements in America stem from Texas, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and others. In Spain, Catalonia, Valencia, the Canary Islands, and other regions have all led armed resistance movements. The same with Chile in the south, the Mapuche Territory / Araucanía. Even parts of Argentina have wanted to separate, and historically, there were many wars over exactly this, just like in the United States. Anywhere where there is not a totally unified culture, despite sharing a language, will begin to separate. The only ones aching for global power are politicians who jerk off with it. The better of the two will win, because post scarcity economics destroys globalist power.
In America specifically, COVID was an accelerant, Epstein files were another accelerant - both showing that much of our institutions are quite literally an elaborate ruse. Public trust in institutions and political morale has never been lower. We’re already seeing various regions form unions and pacts of support. The West Coast is instating its own mutual laws (vaccines, immigration, gender rights, firearm laws, etc.), all of which are becoming increasingly incompatible with other regions. The East Coast is doing the same. The South and Central are also teaming up for mutual economic support and shared laws, etc. Balkanization is a very real possibility. Revolt may come as economic conditions worsen. This may delay post scarcity, which could be good for delaying AGI, but also bad for some in between economic phase. I also expect many civil wars in Europe, having all the same problems as America.
That said, although conflicts have been increasing, most deaths have happened in just a few wars since the 1800s. More conflict doesn’t necessarily mean more deaths, as data trends show.18 So while this will contribute to demographic changes, I’m unsure by how much.
Remote controlled fighter jets, small drones, autonomous naval ships, remote controlled tanks, and humanoid robotics are changing the nature of war drastically. Those with the economic means to produce the most robots, wins. There will be far fewer human soldiers in these conflicts, and so I expect there will be far less opposition to war. As conflict increases for geopolitical and economic reasons, countries will be all too happy to burn money on artificial soldiers.
So there will undoubtedly be much more conflict, but I’m unsure how dangerous it will be for the average Joe. The rules of war might change to reflect a higher value on human life, because wasting lives is no longer geopolitically needed. Consider the traditional Russian war strategy of sending waves of meat into the front lines, slowly grinding at a war of attrition. If humanity is no longer used to this, we will value life differently. Once a force’s robotic technology is eliminated, they will simply surrender rather than continue fighting themselves because they know they cannot beat an advanced artificial army.
But this all depends on how quickly technology develops and how soon the next world war breaks out. As it stands currently, most will be fought with FPV drones and humans.
Additionally, robotic warfare may not reduce lives lost if small conflicts spiral out of control, leading to global nuclear war or small strategic nukes used in specific regions.
I won’t be anywhere near Western countries, and away from the nuclear fallout path if the West does end up glowing green. But I am concerned for loved ones who continue to live in America. They underestimate the risk of staying.
Demographic changes will continue regardless of war. Most advanced nations are simply not having enough kids to exceed their death rate. As of 2025, whites make up roughly 15% of the total Earth population, and it’s projected to continue declining to less than 10% by 2050, and so on. However, evolution is self-correcting; the future belongs to those still having kids. But the world will never look like it used to.
Due to the cultural and ethnic displacement of all major European ethnicities by Middle Eastern, African, and Indian people, the next major European wars will likely have a racial undertone to them as well. I suspect that during this time, they may round up all the migrants and ship them elsewhere. Animosity has been building up for decades now. It will go down in history as “consequences of racist radicalization via social media” and will be used as an excuse to be more authoritarian. We’ve seen examples of this in previous wars, where the underlying conditions that gave rise to populist movements are suppressed or denied by the winners, and instead, the situation is blamed on ignorance. But if this destabilization climax happens after immigrant nationalities have already become the majority, then perhaps the racial roundup won’t happen.
In which case, not only will the world look entirely different in terms of government, culture, and technology, but its people will be fundamentally different than before. As humans continue to intermix, racial differences become fewer and fewer, for better or worse. I see us in a specific stage in human evolution. For most of history, we were separate, then we united for a brief blip on the timeline, interbreeding and becoming the future variation of homo sapiens.
This doesn’t even consider the massive demographic collapse also happening in various countries due to infertility. Global fertility has plummeted below the 2.1 replacement level in over 80% of countries, with South Korea (0.72), Taiwan (0.87), Italy (1.24), and Japan (1.26) leading a demographic collapse that is shrinking populations in Europe, East Asia, and the Americas; by 2050, the UN projects 61 nations will lose 10–50% of their people, aging societies rapidly (e.g., Japan’s median age 49, Italy’s 48) while sub Saharan Africa remains the sole high fertility region, creating a bifurcated world of shrinking, graying powers and youthful, expanding ones. Or at least, that’s the story. I’ve seen reports that many of these nations post fake birth numbers in order to keep getting high amounts of foreign aid.
X user @Object_Zero_theorized, the global birth rate collapse isn’t a crisis but a natural market adjustment.19 Advances in longevity have boosted the “economic utility” (working years) per birth by ~127% since 1851, nearly offsetting the drop in births per woman—maintaining a stable total human labor supply per woman. The 2.27× utility boost almost perfectly counters the 2.52× birth drop, implying fixed “human economic utility birthed per woman.” The idea is that longevity created a temporary labor “oversupply,” driving birth rates down via supply-demand or macro ecology.
Personally, I think this is only one of many variables contributing, but it does explain why we shouldn’t fear the population collapse. As artificial intelligence and robotics take more jobs, fewer people are needed to fill them. AI smooths the whole process out. Fewer products are needed, too. Overall, it will be a good thing because it minimizes Earth’s pollution, but it will significantly destabilize the world in the coming decades while we adjust.
Those countries with high populations from importing immigrants will struggle to feed and care for their people in a global economy transitioning to robotics and AI. These countries will essentially turn into slave labor hubs that lack any real technological development or skill.
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