The war on Iran, and the ways it’s backfired on the aggressors, have proven that the imperial order is governed by a cybernetic system—one that’s capable of being pushed to collapse. This is apparent from how even though American society itself is in an accelerated breakdown, the Iran war and the other wars are able to carry on; for an empire to sustain this offensive, it’s needed to have a pre-built military system for keeping things running. But this doesn’t mean the system is invincible. Just because a system is cybernetic (and therefore designed to automatically reinforce itself) doesn’t mean it’s a system that’s truly rational, and incapable of being made to self-implode.
This is the reality that’s been ignored by the ruling-class figures who’ve relied on cybernetics to stay in power: a structure that functions on its own is still operating with an ideological bias, and the weaknesses that come from this. It’s this flaw in the U.S. empire that’s now being exploited by Iran, Hezbollah, the Palestinian resistance, and Ansarallah, which unlike the empire are operating off of actual human intelligence. It’s this intelligence that’s let Yemen’s freedom fighters develop a guerrilla warfare model for the age of AI, and that will ultimately bring the cybernetic beast to its extinction.
This reality—that our society and government in the “collective west” are ruled by an independent machine—provides a clarity which explanations like the “Jewish question” cannot. And when we look at the cybernetic explanation vs. the JQ in regards to why the Iran war has happened, it becomes clear that even Netanyahu is subordinate to this system, despite how powerful he looks in this situation.
A critical resource for this topic is the 2009 Brookings Institution policy paper, one that made a recommendation which now feels chilling in how perfectly it’s been followed: "Leave it to Bibi.” Ever since they started on their post-9/11 plan to take out seven Muslim countries, the neocons have known they can’t do to Iran what they did to Iraq, as the geophraphy simply gives Persia too much of an advantage. So they’ve long been talking among themselves about offloading the task to the Jewish state, bypassing the overwhelming mission of bringing back the draft in the United States.
That this plan came from the Brookings Institution is significant to showing how the cybernetic imperial system developed. Because as Paul Temple observed in his 1944 polemic against technocratic thinking, Brookings was the foremost organization that conducted the kinds of work which technocrats like; namely reporting on productive and energy outputs, with the goal of figuring out how to fortify bourgeois-imperial control. And today, as the fallout from the Iran war brings unprecedented hyperinflation, technocracy’s modern adherents aim to use this as justification for their movement’s end goal: to create a universal basic income, whereby the masses can be pacified amid an advanced fascistic governance. This was what Temple pointed out about technocracy’s end goal:
The technocrats do not put forwards their “energy cost” proposal as an explanation of the actual world. They do not claim that it sheds any light on what is happening in economy today. It is merely something that ought to be. When the laws of physics bring about the automatic collapse of the system the technocrats hold themselves ready to step forward and introduce the system of “energy costs,” which because it can be physically measured, will enable them to plan production by keeping track of the ergs. As a bookkeeping device, it is part of the technocratic blueprint for the future.
The Technocrats present the change from reckoning price in money to reckoning wealth in “energy cost” as THE fundamental social reform which will eliminate its present evils; it is the essence of the change they propose. Each man equally is to be given “certificates” representing a certain amount of ergs, kilowatts, etc., and for these certificates he will receive goods whose production has consumed that amount of energy. Instead of being tagged in dollars and cents, goods in the technocratic distribution depots (stores) would be price-marked with a certain amount of ergs; and instead of handing dollars over the country, the consumer would make the purchase with “energy certificates.” It is obvious that this “energy certificate” system is a system of rationing, just as the use of money in capitalist economy is – a system of rationing scarcity.
The ideological tendency that the technocrats represent had its vision win out after the Second World War. Since then, our superstructure has been fundamentally governed by the military; it’s the U.S. military that’s been behind the technologies which have come to dominate humanity since then. The state’s decisions, and the psyche of the masses, became under the grip of a “rational” framework designed by an enlightened scientific class. Yet even as the technocrats seem poised to win again, they’ve been faced with an existential question: can the forces opposing the empire harness these same technologies to destroy the cybernetic order?
Nothing has stopped China from building a high-tech society of a socialist character, or Ansarallah from using drones to overwhelm the Zionist forces. What these revolutionary victors have done is get the enemy to undermine itself in pursuit of the cybernetic system’s own goals. When you have a “rational” system that’s in fact driven by highly irrational beliefs, you get acts of self-destruction like the Iran war. You get the enemy to react in ways that only end up weakening it, like the Zionist occupier has crippled itself through its futile attempt to crush Hamas. The occupier’s partial retreat in Gaza, where it’s supposedly agreed to a ceasefire while continuing the genocide, hasn’t stopped this explosion for the settler structure. The entity’s pivot to assaulting Lebanon, Iran, and other countries has furthered the “Israeli” economic, military, and social collapse. This is why Hamas has already won: whereas the resistance has grown in its membership since October 7, the occupier has been brought to its weakest point.
The Axis of Resistance, and the globe’s other anti-imperialist forces, will undoubtedly overwhelm the enemy. The unraveling that we’ve been seeing for U.S./Zionist power in West Asia, where the imperialists have gone on the offensive and then had to confront the unexpected, mirrors the empire’s defeat in Vietnam. In the very broadest sense, it also mirrors how every oppressed and exploited people throughout history have triumphed: by using the inherent advantage of popular revolutionary cohesion to overcome a superior foe.
How soon we’ll defeat the U.S. empire depends on how well we can make our organizations withstand the enemy’s blows. For those of us inside the United States, we’re running out of time before an unprecedented crackdown comes; the different factions within ruling-class politics are consolidating—with one example being that Sanders and Bannon are now working together to stop AI—and we should feel a real urgency. But if we can survive the coming counterrevolutionary purge, and strain the cybernetic structure to its breaking point, we will prevail.
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