omnicide for fun and profit
I often say on here that genocide is the worst crime that human beings have ever invented. But that’s not really true. There’s one worse. Omnicide: the killing of everything.
Unfortunately, omnicide is not a fantasy. The project is underway. The entities committing it and profiting from it are actually the same governments, militaries and corporations committing and profiting from genocide. That is, the U.S. government, the Israeli government, their militaries, their big tech corporations, and their fossil fuel corporations.
The simplest and most profitable ways to commit omnicide are: nuclear weapons, ecological catastrophe from carbon emissions, permanent war, arms dealing, weapons manufacturing, war and disaster profiteering, designation of certain groups for eradication, mass starvation, removal of the means of survival, extreme wealth inequality, hoarding of resources by the rich, unaccountable policing and border control, and A.I.-assisted violence. In other words, the u.s. economy. Democrats and Republicans work together to make sure that these business models are so deeply entrenched in our economy that there can be no way to remove them or defund them. Doing so would mean crashing the economy. This is on purpose.
The u.s. government, the Israeli government, their militaries, their Big Tech corporations, and their fossil fuel corporations are now committing omnicide. The largest polluter on the planet is the u.s. military. It profits by making the world unlivable. Global famine has already arrived for many in the global south, and is coming soon for billions of human beings across the globe. This is not some rock drummer’s deranged fantasy. This is scientific consensus. Famine means no food. You die of starvation.
Not every country can commit omnicide. It takes a tremendous amount of money. Iran can’t commit omnicide. Venezuela can’t commit omnicide. Hamas can’t commit omnicide. Poor, undocumented immigrants can’t commit omnicide. To be able to kill almost everything, you have to have nuclear weapons. Or you have to have an economy so large and destructive that it can wipe out the livable environment. The U.S. has both.
International law means nothing when some countries have nuclear weapons and some don’t. The laws against genocide or unprovoked invasions are only for countries without nuclear weapons. Countries with nuclear weapons are allowed break every rule created after the defeat of Hitler: We can commit genocides, we can invade sovereign countries, we can kill children, we can enslave, we can rape and torture, we can ignore voters, we can kill journalists, doctors, nurses, teachers, and aid workers. The message to the rest of the world is obvious: GET NUCLEAR WEAPONS ASAP.
We entertain ourselves by thinking of omnicidal oligarchs as cartoon villains. It’s so easy to blame everything on Trump, or Netanyahu, or Biden, or Musk. It’s easier to think of them as crazy, illogical, deranged, or senile, than to admit they are actually the logical conclusion of our politico-economic systems. Their goal is profit (or investment), and that’s exactly what they get. If you are profitable, you can commit any atrocity and simply say, “It’s not political. I’m just fulfilling my fiduciary responsibility to my shareholders.” Enough people will believe you, no matter how ridiculous this statement is to most of us.
It’s easy to see that Palestinians and Lebanese are collateral for Israel. It’s harder to see why. It’s hard to admit that the entire is human race is collateral for capital. We’ve crossed a historic line in the last 20 years. Mega-corporations, and the governments that keep them in power, no longer need most of the human race. In the past they worked hard for your money, your votes, your belief, your hearts and minds. Now they only need your anger, your desperation, your confusion, your hatred, Your sickness, your injuries, your wars, and your deaths. This is what now keeps them profitable.
A key moment when I realized that the American public had become superfluous to the plans of its ruling class, and that we no longer lived in a democracy, was when Biden and Harris repeatedly funded genocide, against the will of their own voters, often without Congressional approval, with no effort to persuade the public, and no regard for how it would affect the upcoming election.
Starving our own species to death sounds utterly crazy, but the u.s. and Israeli governments, and their allies and media, are busy taking the necessary steps. For example they are normalizing famine for certain ethnic groups, certain religions, certain classes of people. According to political consensus of Democrats and Republicans, it’s OK for Palestinians to starve. According to political consensus of Democrats and Republicans, it’s a crime to feed starving Palestinians. All that remains now is to add more ethnic groups and classes of people to the list of the undeserving. That’s already happening. Think about it. Prisoners. undocumented immigrants. documented immigrants. protestors. people who live where a corporation wants to build something. the homeless. the poor. the Lebanese. the Iranians. the Congolese, the Sudanese.
The handful of souls driving the omnicidal business model are not in denial about omnicide. Believing they are is a luxury we can’t afford. They live off of death. They have plans for their own survival, even if the rest of us are expendable. An infrastructure of A.I.-protected enclaves, remote communities for the wealthy, bunkers, and hoarded resources like food and water, are already being established and normalized. These people know better than anyone that omnicide is real, regardless of how they might discuss it in public.
Look at the accelerating scale of destruction now being caused by the U.S. and Israel. It’s no exaggeration to say: They have to be stopped. Humanity’s continued existence depends on it. And unfortunately this doesn’t mean voting a few more Democrats like AOC into Congress, or nicer-seeming Zionists like Newsom or Harris into the White House. Would it help us understand the problem if we replaced the term “lesser evil” with “lesser omnicider?“ Remember, they have still promised to destroy everything, though perhaps with better decorum and/or snobbery.
There is no version of reality where genocide, apartheid, illegal military conquests, land theft, nuclear weapons, destruction of a livable habitat with carbon emissions, intentional mass starvation, permanent war profiteering, extreme wealth inequality, hoarding of resources by the rich, and A.I.-assisted violence are OK. And they don’t magically become OK when a Democrat engages in them, or funds them, or refuses to discuss them. They don’t suddenly become OK when Israel does them. They don’t become OK when an opponent “does them too.” They don’t become ok when the person doing them seems charming on TV.
Omincide becomes easier when the possibility of getting accurate information is destroyed. Politicians become more comfortable with lying about, or staying silent on, omnicidal issues. The proliferation of media overwhelms the public into numbness. A.I. is deployed to create doubt about everything you see. Journalism is turned into a corporate money-making scheme. Journalists who disagree are assassinated, as has been normalized in gaza, thanks to the efforts of both u.s. parties.
A.I. is key to the omnicidal program. Studies show it encourages stupidity and psychosis among the people whose survival is being targeted. And A.I. weapons make the omnicide go faster. This is why Deerhoof quit Spotify. Its leader Daniel Ek invests the money he steals from the past and present musicians of earth into A.I. weapons systems. Musicians’ “success” turns into a quicker end for humanity. Quicker, and more profitable, if your name happens to be Daniel Ek, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Palantir, or the Amer-Israel military industrial complex.
Capitalists always say that capitalism is human nature. I can prove that this is a lie. If capitalism were natural, we would not need A.I. to perform its functions. Unlike human beings, A.I. has no regrets, no emotions, no love, no fatigue, no creativity. it can kill and kill and kill and never get tired, never feel sorry.