This Fascist Inside of Me
“So the line is that I am a dictator ‘we don’t need him, freedom, freedom, he’s a dictator’…a lot of people are saying…Maybe we like a dictator…” Donald Trump
This fascist inside of me
wakes at dawn
in the deep-dumb-darkness
of their double-digit
to crawl through the needle’s-eye,
to listen loudly to this poison i drink,
each news-cycle, in
a world already lost.
This fascist i can no longer love,
burnt twice in an inquisition of
power and poverty,
bent and torn on words dressed
like these well-dressed business-men
who pimp our most expensive prostitutes:
the men in power and the women
who greet each day with a faith
filled with both fear and venom.
This fascist among fascists,
this white supremacist of the soul!
this sex-crazed body-snatcher
who torments even my sleep
with dreams of our history in flames
and with words bitter like
poison.
Now, let it be said,
is the Time of Monsters,
uprising, today, all around us…
…the ones who slept snugly
while Berlin burned
and the rats commandeered
the sinking ship.
2
This is the time where Nature must sleep
waiting for the sperm of the Great-Ape
to dry and sink to sand and dust,
to disappear forever in the death of deserts.
Now is a time of permanent war.
And all that is different is
this solitary white male,
brain engorged with the blood
of dead penises
and with no blood left
to be siphoned from the poor
now He will turn
his shrill-sharpened teeth
on his own
this monster – who eats
even its own children – on its deadly way
down.
3
Once we were asked
who are these criminals, you speak of?
But, look, already they are fading
into the forgetfulness of the fire
for we have buried our own
hearts and minds
in the loneliness of this belonging,
burned our own homelands,
broken everything down
to the boneless bone.
and all that is left now
is their fascist inside of me,
the One i can no longer love
this fascist among a multitude of fascists
patrolling these welcome-less walls
as our mindless ghettos
burn fiercely
and with much hatred,
to the ground.
séamas carraher
8 October – 14 November
https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/
IMAGE
“Make America Hate Again? Flipped off by a Trump supporter during a anti-Trump protest in Granite City, Illinois.” (2018)
Zachary McGee, CC BYY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Quote
Donald Trump (US President and Convicted Felon): “So the line is that I am a dictator ‘we don’t need him, freedom, freedom he’s a dictator’…a lot of people are saying…Maybe we like a dictator…” Channel 4 – The Donald Trump Show – [42’04”]
Alternative Quote(s)
Karl Popper: “But the secret of intellectual excellence is the spirit of criticism; it is intellectual independence. And this leads to difficulties which must prove insurmountable for any kind of authoritarianism. The authoritarian will in general select those who obey, who believe, who respond to his influence. But in doing so, he is bound to select mediocrities. For he excludes those who revolt, who doubt, who dare to resist his influence. Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous, i.e. those who dare to defy his authority, may be the most valuable type. Of course, the authorities will always remain convinced of their ability to detect initiative. But what they mean by this is only a quick grasp of their intentions, and they will remain forever incapable of seeing the difference.”(Chris Hedges 2010 Book “Death of the Liberal Class”. begins Chapter 5 ‘Liberal Defectors’ with this quote from “The Open Society and Its Enemies”)
Paulina Borsook, (author of ‘Cyberselfish’, 2000): “…politics is how power affects people…”
Video Interview by Gil Duran – October 21, 2025
References & Context
The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report
“Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.”
Chris Hedges: “It is a coup d’état by inches. One that will be enforced in crude and brutal fashion by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency on the streets of our cities. Empowered by Thiel’s Palantir and the sophisticated forms of monitoring made possible by artificial intelligence and digital surveillance pioneered by Silicon Valley.” [1:58-2:15]
Chris Hedges Channel – October 23, 2025
The Thiel Effect (“A Pathway into British Power”)
“Back in 2009, Thiel declared openly, ‘I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.’ That wasn’t a throwaway remark. It was the blueprint. Since then, Thiel has poured millions into reshaping politics on both sides of the Atlantic. In America, he bankrolled Donald Trump’s 2016 rise.” [1:09-1:26]
ALSO:
‘Blue Labour’ and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics [Article]
Byline Times – September 25, 2025
“The UK Government has announced a GBP1.5 billion tie-up with US software firm Palantir, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) revealed on 18 September.”
Alex Karp: “…most of our businesses in government and it all involves both sides of this equation finding people who are up to essentially bad things both in the anti-terror area, in cyber, in financial malfeasance, mortgage fraud, but also making sure the data is tagged in a way that allows agencies to collaborate with one another [5:56-6:14]
Alex Karp Interview -0 Palantir Philosophy Explained – 2009
Related Discussion: Techno-Fascism
The Techno Optimist Manifesto — Narrated by AI Marc Andreessen
Recorded
Codethazine e/acc – October 19, 2023
Text
Summary
Wikipedia – Optimist Manifesto
5 Questions: Dark Enlightenment, Techno-Fascism, and May Day Protests
Technofascism Essay|Summary
Make Politics Boring Again – June, 2025
Techno-Fascism: It’s Bigger Than Elon Musk
“With the rise of Trump and his unique brand of fascism, many are quick to make the claim that we are living through “literally 1984.” It’s easy to see why…in this video, however, I will argue that Trump, for all his disciplinarian tendencies, is really just the logical conclusion of capitalism.”
The Stories We Tell – June, 2025
Peter Thiel: “Technology is this incredible alternative to politics.”
More Perfect Union – May, 2025
Whitney Webb on the CIA, Ukraine & the PayPal Mafia
“Whitney Webb explains how the PayPal Mafia laid the groundwork for global surveillance, predictive policing, and AI targeting “threats” before they act — starting with Ukraine.
“Palantir which now contracts for all 18 intelligence agencies and now most of the corporate world and Wall Street. It’s really become arguably a digital brain for both, you know, the National Security State and Multinational Corporations in the United States and obviously beyond the US as well…” [8:23-8:39]
Katie Halper – October 20, 2025
Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the fall of democracy
“Yanis Varoufakis explains the evolution of capitalism, from its beginnings in feudal Europe to its imminent death in the era of Big Tech.
“As Elon Musk and the Big Tech billionaires increase their control over government institutions, we must all ask ourselves a troubling question: are we witnessing the end of democracy?”
OTHER “OLIGARCH” PROFILES
(or More Oligarchs in the “Coalition” that Runs the US Empire)
Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin (“The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance”) argues that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced by monarchy.
“Yarvin’s ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Thiel have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Journalist Jonathan Wilson has described Yarvin as an obscure far-right thinker with “a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration“. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin’s thinking. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, “So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things”, which included “Retire All Government Employees” or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, “I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'”
Curtis Yarvin – The “Intellectual” Behind The Presidency “Is Curtis Yarvin secretly shaping government policy? In this deep dive, we explore the political philosopher and controversial thinker behind the “neoreactionary” movement and his potential connections to power.”
Alex Karp – The Techno-Nationalist Behind Palantir
All Roads Lead to Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
“For decades, Ellison’s software company Oracle has bought up
competitors, paving the way for a digital surveillance state.”
Larry Ellison: “This whole issue of privacy is utterly fascinating to me. Who’s ever heard of this information being misused by the government?” [0:54]
More Perfect Union – November 6, 2025
“Surveillance Capitalism”
Shoshana Zuboff on ‘surveillance capitalism’ and how tech companies are always watching us
“A mutant form of capitalism where tech giants like Facebook and Google are spying on users and manipulating our data to exploit and predict behaviours – in what is a serious threat to our freedom and privacy.”
Channel 4 News – September, 2019
Wikipedia: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019 – Book)
Shoshana Zuboff: “Surveillance capitalism is best described as a coup from above, not an overthrow of the state but rather an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty and a prominent force in the perilous drift towards democratic de-consolidation that now threatens Western liberal democracies.”
See Also: Wikipedia – Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
UPDATE: Palantir Corporation Poem
“Paul Biggar exposes how Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft’s billion-dollar ties to Israel control information, enforce censorship, and enable the devastation.”
TRT World – October 20, 2025 [3 mins]
TRT World – October 20, 2025 (11 min version)
REFERENCES [TEXT]
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This fascist inside of me
wakes at dawn
in the deep-dumb-darkness
of their double-digit
Peter Thiel Doesn’t Want You to See This Clip
Peter Thiel: “Technology is this incredible alternative to politics”
More Perfect Union – May, 2025
this white supremacist of the soul!
How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy
Nafeez Ahmed: “One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology and is already putting it into action”
4 April 2025
2
the sperm of the Great-Ape
“The Hominidae… whose members are known as the great apes or hominids… are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans (Homo sapiens) remain.” (Wikipedia)
the monster – who eats
even its own children
on its deadly way down.
Chris Hedges: “Permanent war is the most effective mechanism used by the power elite to stifle reform and muzzle dissent. A state of war demands greater secrecy, constant vigilance and suspicion. It generates distrust and fear, especially in culture and art, often reducing it to silence or nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media. It wrecks the economy. It nullifies public opinion. And it forces liberal institutions to sacrifice their beliefs for a holy crusade, a kind of surrogate religion, whether it is against the Hun, the Bolshevik, the fascist, the communist, or the Islamic terrorist. The liberal class in a state of permanent war is rendered impotent.”
(From: ‘Permanent War’, Chapter 2, in “Death of the Liberal Class”)
also: re USA
“My goal with this video is to narrow in on the technological aspect of Trumpian fascism and show how the Silicon Valley ideology, knowingly or not, has created fertile ground for its flourishing.” [6:49-6:55]
Techno-Fascism: It’s Bigger Than Elon Musk
“In this video, however, I will argue that Trump, for all his disciplinarian tendencies, is really just the logical conclusion of capitalism. Capital has consumed and consumed and there is nothing left to consume. In the words of Prahbat Patnaik, “The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.” Orwell’s communist-coded vision of totalitarianism is replaced by unfettered capitalism. The dreary, lifeless coldness of 1984 becomes the overheated, hyper-individual accelerationism of 2025. Our society is plagued not by stagnation, but by uncontrolled expansion.”
The Stories We Tell – June, 2025
Also: Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism – WIRED magazine “The tech giants have overthrown capitalism.”
“In its most compelling stretches, Technofeudalism argues that Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have changed the economy so much that it now resembles Europe’s medieval feudal system. The tech giants are the lords, while everyone else is a peasant, working their land for not much in return.
Article/Interview on ‘Technofeudalism’
Yanis Varoufakis: “Hate is the fuel of fascism. So if you blend discontent, the fact that most people can’t make ends meet, and you throw in there the hatred that is reinforced by the algorithms, that’s fascism.” Varoufakis – April, 2024
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as our mindless ghettos
burn fiercely
and with much hatred,
to the ground.
Security review of all IPAS (Refugee) centres after arson attack
RTE News (Irelands) – November 2, 2025
Finally: Hope for the future?
Victor Serge: “It is untrue, a hundred times untrue that the end justifies the means. Justice is not made by iniquity, the world and men are not transformed by means of chains, loud-speakers crying out falsehoods, and vast agencies of intellectuals paid to cram people’s heads full of lies. Every end requires its own means, and an end is only obtained by the appropriate means. Though the socialist revolution may, in times of crisis, be forced to make use of the old weapons left by bourgeois society, afterwards it must find its own weapons. It can only progress by improving the material and moral condition of the masses. More personal well-being, more liberty, less lies, more dignity, more respect for humanity. The socialism which proceeds otherwise gives in to a sort of inner counter-revolution, discredits itself
and risks suicide.
1928 plunged us headlong into that kind of socialism.”
Archive.org -Victor Serge – From Lenin to Stalin (1937)
Yanis Varoufakis: “A realignment of the left? [10:02] “I think it’s essential. I think it’s not just me who needs it. I think that society needs it because…this world of ours whether it’s the United Kingdom or Germany or France or my country or the United States for that matter, we’re drifting in a direction… that is taking us collectively to a form of sophisticated misanthropy and…you know the rise of racism, the rise of the manosphere… as a species we are facing an existential threat following you know this… this a revival of a kind of… the midwar period. Yes, it’s nation states. It’s strong men. It’s the crowds on the street. It’s a violent… a climate of violence. You’re thinking to yourself, the proof is there that the algorithms which are controlled by some of the world’s richest men. They take the human nature to make you angrier, to make you more entirely violent.”
“They poison our democracies” | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left
BBC Newsnight – October 7, 2025
Yanis Varoufakis: “So if we have this new system that is fueling a new fascism, then what should we do about it?”
“Well, many things. But to begin with, let’s understand where we are, so we don’t blame the foreigners. We don’t blame women. We don’t blame trans people. A little bit of knowledge goes a long way towards recreating the circumstances for a decent conversation between us.
“In economic terms, we need to introduce a cloud tax immediately. Tax Amazon 5 percent for every transaction that takes place on its platform. Then, introduce a capacity for you and me to own a digital identity so we don’t need Google or Facebook to vouch for who we are on the internet. Having a state-issued digital identity will go a long way towards restoring or handing you property rights over your data, because at the moment you do not own your data.
You can introduce interoperability. I am on X. I can’t go to Bluesky. Let’s say that Elon Musk decides to block me because I said something he didn’t like. He has blocked me before for a couple of weeks. Now, I have more than a million followers on X. I cannot leave without losing them. If I go to Bluesky, I have 10 followers. Interoperability would mean that if I go to another platform, to Bluesky, when I post something on Bluesky, then my 1 million followers on X can hear it.” Wired via Varoufakis.eu April 2024
Wired – via Varoufakis.eu – April, 2024
And, as to the future, (“Lest We forget” Palestine)
Norman Finkelstein: “Goldstone did not perform the role of the Jewish liberal,” Finkelstein said, (Finkelstein, whose book “This Time We Went Too Far” examines the 2008 Israeli attack on Gaza)
“which is to be anguished, but no consequences. And all of a sudden Israeli liberal Jews are discovering, hey, there are consequences for committing war crimes. You don’t just get to walk into the sunset and look beautiful. They can’t believe it. They are genuinely shocked. ‘Aren’t our tears consequences enough? Aren’t our long eyes and broken hearts consequences enough?’ ‘No,’ he said, ‘you have to go to the criminal court.’”
Chris Hedges, “Death of the Liberal Class” [Ch. 5, ‘Liberal Defectors’)
George Steiner: “THE WRITER AND COMMUNISM” (1961)
“One of the striking differences between Fascism and Communism is this: Fascism has inspired no great work of art. With the possible exception of Montherlant, it has drawn into its orbit no writer of the first rank. (Ezra Pound was no Fascist; he used the occasions and trappings of Fascism for his own quirky economics.) Communism, on the contrary, has been a central force in much of the finest of modern literature; and personal encounter with Communism has marked the consciousness and career of many of the major writers of the age.
“Why this difference? No doubt, Fascism is too vile and scurrilous an ideology to produce those charities of the imagination which are essential to literate art. Communism, even where it has gone venomous, is a mythology of the human future, a vision of human possibility rich in moral demand. Fascism is the ultimate code of the hoodlum; Communism fails because it would seek to impose upon the fragile plurality of human nature and conduct an artificial ideal of self-denial and historic purpose. Fascism tyrannizes through contempt of man; Communism tyrannizes by exalting man above that sphere of private error, private ambition, and private love which we call freedom.”
“Language and Silence” – Essays 1958-1966, Faber and Faber, 1967”)
Rebellion?
Chris Hedges: “Significant structural change will not occur in our lifetime. This makes resistance harder. It shifts resistance from the tangible, the immediate, and the practical, to the amorphous and the indeterminate. But to stop resisting is spiritual and intellectual death. It is to surrender to the dehumanizing ideology of totalitarian capitalism. Acts of resistance keep alive another way of being. They sustain our integrity and empower others, whom we may never meet, to stand up and carry the flame we pass to them. No act of resistance is useless, whether it is refusing to pay taxes, fighting for a Tobin tax, working to shift the neoclassical economics paradigm, revoking a corporate charter, holding global Internet votes, or using Twitter to catalyze a chain reaction of refusal against the neoliberal order. We must resist and trust that resistance is worthwhile. Our communities will sustain us, emotionally and materially. They will be the key to a life of defiance.”
(From: “Death of the Liberal Class” – “Rebellion”)
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