The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Sometimes it feels like the core of right-wing thought is "it is impossible to conceive of a society which doesn't have underclasses (which you can be born into) that it abuses, so let's at least do it efficiently." and on this level I am staunchly left-wing.

I think there is hope in a post human future. That's the place for leftist ideas to shine.

When I was like 17 or 18 I conceived of a political ideology oriented around pirating transhumanist technology called Prometheanism. I don't believe in all of the same things anymore, but I do still believe in a lot of them.

So here's the thing: I am no longer convinced the Right's narrative on IQ holds any water. However, at the time I thought it was true, and I thought of it as "This is true and that is horrible. We are learning to edit genes. We don't have to just accept this as-is."

It was intended my "fuck you" to the Illuminati (who I believed existed - as in, rich ultra-high-IQ individuals deciding to rule together against the masses) because I had... have... a tremendous inferiority complex, lol. I'm white but classism also exists.

It stopped being a thing right around the 2010s, however: The kind of classism where people imply that the only way to be poor is if you have a biologically worse brain (in a way that can never change) really fucking stung me when it was more prevalent.

Do you remember that? Ayn Rand people telling you "if you're broke I guess it's just because you're a lesser being. Sucks to suck lol." It wasn't racial, it was 100% pure classism.

There's a really good essay about this by a guy named Joe Kadi https://autistichoya.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/stupidity_deconstructed.pdf …