By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | April 27, 2025
A New Breed of Tyrant
Once upon a time, the architects of empire were grizzled generals, cigar-chomping industrialists, and Wall Street tycoons with blood under their fingernails. Today, they wear hoodies, collect Funko Pops, and spend their weekends LARPing as elves and wizards. But make no mistake: their fantasies are soaked in real blood.
In the 21st-century United States, a new ruling class has emerged at the deadly intersection of Big Tech, Big Capital, and the Military-Industrial Complex. This class — a bizarre priesthood of technofascist nerds — is not content with merely building the machinery of empire. They must wrap it in myth. Chief among these myths is The Lord of the Rings — a fantasy epic that, for them, is not just fiction, but a sacred political blueprint.
This exposé investigates the strange but telling obsession of America’s new warlords with Tolkien’s world: the companies they named after it, the weapons systems they designed in its image, and the ideology it reveals beneath the polished surface of “defense innovation.”
Palantir Technologies: The Seeing Stone of Surveillance Capitalism
The most infamous example of Lord of the Rings fandom infecting the war machine is Palantir Technologies, founded by billionaire technocrat Peter Thiel in 2003. Funded in part by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, Palantir specializes in surveillance software designed to ingest, analyze, and weaponize oceans of data — the literal realization of the Palantír, Tolkien’s “seeing stones” that could observe events across vast distances, corrupting all who sought to use them.
Thiel himself is a self-described “fan of Tolkien” and “defender of Western civilization”, a man who believes democracy and freedom are fundamentally at odds and who has openly called for a return to aristocratic rule. Palantir’s primary clients include the Pentagon, ICE, the CIA, and the NSA — agencies that use its software to track, target, and deport human beings, often without due process.
The choice of name was no accident. As Palantir’s founders bragged, they envisioned their company as a “seeing stone” for the empire — an artifact of total information awareness, capable of predicting insurgencies, sabotaging revolutions, and protecting the ruling class from the consequences of its own crimes. In their hands, the power of the Palantír is not a cautionary tale, but a mission statement.
Anduril Industries: The Sword of the Surveillance State
If Palantir is the Eye, Anduril Industries is the sword. Founded by Palmer Luckey — the disgraced inventor of Oculus VR, later fired from Facebook for secretly funding far-right propaganda networks — Anduril produces autonomous surveillance towers, AI-powered drones, and automated targeting systems for the Department of Defense and Homeland Security.
Named after Aragorn’s reforged sword in The Lord of the Rings (“Andúril” meaning “Flame of the West”), Luckey’s company proudly markets itself as the cutting edge of “defense innovation” — a euphemism for the automation of imperial violence.
Among Anduril’s signature products are the Ghost drones and the Sentry Tower system — technologies already deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border and in various theaters of occupation abroad. These are not fantasy props. They are real-world killing machines, developed by men who dream of elves, wizards, and eternal war.
The Broader Tolkien Industrial Complex
Palantir and Anduril are only the most visible examples. Across the U.S. defense landscape, companies and programs draw liberally from Tolkien’s mythology:
- Rivendell Associates — a niche but real consultancy advising defense contractors on cybersecurity and intelligence operations, named after the elven refuge in Middle-earth.
- Grey Havens Group — a cybersecurity contractor whose name references the departure point for Tolkien’s immortal heroes.
- Classified Cyber Defense Programs — internal reports from the Snowden leaks revealed that some cyber operations bore code names referencing “Gandalf” and “the Grey Pilgrim.”
Even informal nicknames betray this obsession: experimental drone swarms internally nicknamed “Nazgûl units,” and predictive policing algorithms compared to Sauron’s Eye by engineers themselves.
This is not random. It is an embedded culture — a self-mythologizing priesthood that frames its brutal technologies not as instruments of domination, but as sacred weapons in an epic war against evil.
The Nerd Kings and the White Ruling Class: An Unholy Alliance
Behind the cosplay and fantasy novels lies a hard, brutal reality: these men — Thiel, Luckey, Bezos, Musk, Schmidt — are not isolated nerds playing with toys. They are deeply embedded in the white ruling class’s effort to recalibrate and consolidate empire under conditions of crisis.
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, worked closely with the Department of Defense on AI battlefield applications and advised U.S. cyberwarfare strategies against China. Jeff Bezos secured billion-dollar contracts with the CIA and Pentagon through Amazon Web Services — the literal cloud architecture of the surveillance state. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink systems now directly support U.S. military operations, including in Ukraine and the Pacific.
These nerds are not rebels against the old order; they are its cutting edge. Their obsession with Tolkien is not a harmless fandom — it is the ideological software that justifies the militarization of AI, the automation of surveillance, and the permanent restructuring of the planet under U.S. imperial domination.
Toward a Mythology of Resistance
The Ring has been forged. It is not a gold band, but a mesh of satellites, algorithms, drones, and data centers — built by nerds who believe they are heroes, when in truth they have become the very monsters Tolkien warned against.
We are ruled by men who think they are Aragorn, but behave like Saruman. We live under the Eye of Sauron — a surveillance machine born not of evil sorcerers, but of technocratic dreamers who mistook fantasy for destiny.
It is not enough to mock them. It is not enough to expose them. Like the Fellowship of old, we must organize — fiercely, creatively, collectively — to cast their Ring into the fire and destroy the system they have built.
In the words of Tolkien himself: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
II. Why Tolkien? A Deep Psycho-Political Autopsy
It is not a coincidence that the technofascist nerd kings — Thiel, Luckey, Schmidt, Musk, Bezos — cling to The Lord of the Rings with a kind of religious fervor. It is not merely fandom. It is ideological self-mythologizing. The deeper we excavate, the clearer it becomes: Tolkien’s world offers a fantasy that justifies their technocratic seizure of power, their empire of surveillance, and their obsession with technological domination.
1. The Myth of Noble Stewardship
At the heart of Tolkien’s mythology lies the idea of “noble stewardship”: that certain men (and only certain men) are destined to wield power for the good of all, so long as they do so selflessly and with virtue. Aragorn, Gandalf, Elrond — all are portrayed as reluctant rulers, forced to lead because others are too weak, corrupt, or stupid.
This myth is deeply attractive to the modern technocrat. Men like Peter Thiel, who once wrote in Cato Unbound that he “no longer believes that freedom and democracy are compatible,” see themselves as reluctant Aragorns. They imagine themselves as the elite minority who must take the burden of leadership, for the good of humanity, because the masses are too ignorant to govern themselves.
Thus, the mass deployment of AI surveillance, predictive policing, and drone warfare is not framed as domination, but as necessary stewardship — technocratic kingship in the name of order.
2. The Apocalyptic Worldview: Good vs Evil Forever
The Lord of the Rings is a fundamentally apocalyptic story. Evil (Sauron) cannot be reasoned with. War is inevitable. Compromise is treason. Victory is fragile and must be endlessly defended.
This black-and-white moral framework dovetails perfectly with the post-9/11 imperial mindset of the U.S. security state. Terrorism, disinformation, insurgency, China, Russia — all are cast as manifestations of absolute evil that must be defeated, not negotiated with.
Technofascist nerds thus see themselves locked in an eternal war against chaos and darkness. Their weapons — drones, predictive algorithms, AI surveillance — are imagined not as tools of oppression, but as sacred artifacts in a permanent holy war for the survival of “the West.”
This explains why Project Maven (the Pentagon’s AI drone warfare initiative) was so internally celebrated by engineers who nicknamed themselves “watchers on the wall” — a direct borrowing from fantasy genre mythologies of eternal siege.
3. The Magic of Technology
In Tolkien’s universe, technology is synonymous with magic: rings of power, palantíri, swords forged with secret runes. The highest forms of technology are mystified, sacralized, made the province of a chosen few.
This mirrors the technofascist elite’s vision of their own power. AI, quantum computing, autonomous drones, neuro-surveillance: these are the new Rings of Power. Those who understand and control them — the Palantir engineers, the Anduril drone developers, the Pentagon AI operatives — are imagined as modern-day wizards, wielding forces the common people cannot comprehend.
Hence the almost theological language used by people like Eric Schmidt when describing AI: a “moment of destiny” for humanity, a technology that must be entrusted to “wise” American hands rather than “authoritarian” enemies.
In this mythology, the “good guys” forging new weapons are humble Gandalfs; their enemies are Saurons. The possibility that they themselves are becoming Sauron is excluded from their mental universe.
4. Escapism for a Failing Empire
The rise of Tolkien worship among the technofascist elite also reflects a deeper pathology: escapism from the reality of imperial decline.
As the American empire faces internal decay and external resistance — from the BRICS+ realignment to mass rebellion at home — the nerd kings retreat into a fantasy where history can be frozen at its peak: where noble kings rule forever, evil is externalized onto Others, and the rightful order of the world is never seriously challenged.
In Tolkien’s world, the greatest threat is not the injustice of the existing order, but the rise of new forces (Sauron, Saruman) that seek to disrupt it. This mirrors the American ruling class’s terror of multipolarity: China, Russia, the Global South challenging U.S. hegemony are framed not as the correction of centuries of colonial violence, but as the resurgence of a new “Dark Lord” that must be contained at all costs.
Thus, the nerd kings’ obsession with Middle-earth becomes a crutch — a mythic retreat from the crumbling reality of late capitalist imperialism. Instead of adapting, they double down: building more weapons, more surveillance, more fortresses.
5. Race, Hierarchy, and the Fantasy of Biological Destiny
Though often ignored by casual readers, The Lord of the Rings is saturated with racial essentialism. Different races (Elves, Men, Dwarves, Orcs) are born with fixed moral qualities. The Elves are naturally wise and noble; the Orcs are naturally corrupt and savage.
This racial determinism is disturbingly compatible with the worldview of many in the U.S. tech-military complex. Peter Thiel, for example, has funded white nationalist writers and theorists and has supported eugenicist ideologies under the guise of “technological optimism.”
The racial hierarchy of Middle-earth, where noble blood justifies kingship and moral superiority is biologically innate, provides the perfect ideological comfort for a ruling class facing the rising demographic challenge of a multiracial world.
They do not need to say the quiet part out loud: Tolkien’s world says it for them, in mythic form. They are the Elves, the Men of Númenor. The masses of the Global South, the indigenous nations, the urban poor? At best, “lesser men” — at worst, Orcs.
Myth is Power
Behind the weaponized algorithms and gleaming drone fleets of the 21st century lies not only science and engineering, but mythology. And not just any mythology: a mythology of rightful domination, noble hierarchy, eternal war, and technological magic wielded by a chosen few.
This is why Tolkien matters. Not because the nerd kings are childish. Not because they are harmless dreamers. But because they have turned fantasy into ideology, and ideology into weapons.
The American empire’s next generation of rulers will not look like old-school capitalists. They will look like Peter Thiel quoting Tolkien, Palmer Luckey designing elvish border walls, and Eric Schmidt sermonizing about AI destiny — all while building the Eye of Sauron in Silicon Valley.
Understanding their myths is the first step toward breaking their hold over the future.
III. Tolkien’s Worldview: Colonialism, Racial Hierarchy, and Feudal Ideology
It would be a mistake to believe that The Lord of the Rings is a value-neutral epic — a harmless fantasy. In reality, Tolkien’s work is saturated with the ideological assumptions of the colonial era: a deep racial essentialism, a celebration of feudal hierarchy, and a fear of “the other” that mirrors the anxieties of dying European empires.
Understanding this is crucial, because the technofascist nerd kings — the Palantir executives, the Anduril arms dealers, the Silicon Valley “wizards” of empire — do not merely enjoy Tolkien’s mythology. They absorb its political structure into the architecture of their own domination.
1. A Colonial Worldview
J.R.R. Tolkien, writing in the early-to-mid 20th century, was deeply shaped by the British Empire at its zenith and decline. Though he disavowed crude political allegory, Tolkien’s mythos is unmistakably an expression of imperial nostalgia: a longing for a world ruled by “good” kings, ancient bloodlines, and wise elites, untouched by the chaos of modernity and mass democracy.
In Middle-earth, the West — Gondor, Rohan, the Elves — is portrayed as noble, ancient, wise, and just. The East and South — Haradrim, Easterlings, the “dark-skinned” men who fight for Sauron — are depicted as barbaric, cruel, and easily manipulated by evil.
This racialized geography of good and evil maps almost perfectly onto the colonial imagination of Tolkien’s Britain: the white West as the bearer of civilization; the darker-skinned East and South as the forces of savagery and despotism.
As scholars like Mariana Rios Maldonado and Patrick Curry have shown, Tolkien’s work mythologizes colonial conquest and racial hierarchy — not by accident, but as an integral part of his world-building.
This matters because the technofascist nerd class — overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly reactionary — finds in Tolkien’s fantasy a comforting mirror of their own imperial ambitions. They do not need to invent a racialized myth of domination. Tolkien provides it for them, already burnished by the gloss of “high fantasy.”
2. Racial Essentialism and the Myth of Inborn Goodness
In Tolkien’s world, morality is not a choice; it is a birthright. Elves are wise and noble because they are Elves. Orcs are savage and cruel because they are Orcs. Blood determines destiny. Redemption is rare and usually only possible for those of “good blood” — Boromir’s fall is tragic because he was a noble man led astray; Orcs are irredeemable monsters to be slaughtered without mercy.
This racial essentialism, though often invisible to casual readers, permeates Tolkien’s universe. And it resonates powerfully with the quiet eugenicism of Silicon Valley’s ruling class.
Peter Thiel has long championed ideas of human biological inequality. Palmer Luckey has funded projects aimed at building an AI-driven border wall — a literal technological fortress to keep out the “lesser races.” The obsession with “meritocracy,” “genetic destiny,” and “IQ elitism” among tech elites is not separate from their Tolkien worship; it is a direct ideological descendant.
In their vision, the ruling class is composed of the Elves and Númenóreans of the modern world: biologically superior, morally destined to rule, justified in wielding the Rings of Power (surveillance, AI, drones) over the lesser peoples who must be managed, contained, or eliminated.
3. Feudal Nostalgia and Anti-Democratic Longing
Tolkien’s universe is explicitly anti-democratic. Power resides with hereditary kings, ancient bloodlines, and councils of wise elders. Ordinary people — Hobbits, common soldiers — are valuable only insofar as they serve or assist the great heroes. There is no vision of mass democracy, no liberation of the oppressed, no collective self-rule.
This feudal nostalgia resonates deeply with Silicon Valley’s emerging ideology: a technocratic feudalism in which governance by the masses is seen as dangerous, chaotic, and inefficient.
Peter Thiel’s infamous support for “seasteading” — the building of private libertarian kingdoms beyond the reach of democratic states — is the purest expression of this longing. So is Elon Musk’s vision of Mars colonization as a corporate-run fiefdom, with himself as its lord.
In this light, the technofascist embrace of Tolkien is not just aesthetic. It is political. They do not merely enjoy tales of knights and kings; they seek to recreate a world where their class rules by divine technological right, unencumbered by the messy claims of democracy or human equality.
4. The Enemy Without: Fear of the Barbarian Horde
In Tolkien’s narratives, the existential threat always comes from the outside: dark-skinned men from the East, savage creatures from Mordor, corrupted agents from distant lands. The greatest fear is not internal injustice, but external invasion.
This dovetails perfectly with the psychology of the contemporary American empire, and particularly with the mindset of its nerd kings. The real danger, they believe, is not the exploitation, inequality, and violence of the imperial core — it is the “barbarian horde” at the gates: migrants from the Global South, revolutionary movements, insurgent states, rival civilizations like China and Russia.
Thus, the militarization of the border, the expansion of drone warfare, the saturation of society with surveillance — all are framed not as assaults on freedom, but as noble defenses against external evil.
In Tolkien’s mythology, war is inevitable, and walls are necessary. In the technofascists’ mythology, the same is true — only now the walls are built with AI, biometric scanners, drone sentries, and predictive algorithms.
The Myth That Justifies Empire
When we strip away the fantasy aesthetic, the meaning of Tolkien’s mythology — and its appeal to the technofascist class — becomes clear:
- Power belongs to the few, not the many.
- Biology and destiny are intertwined.
- Surveillance and domination are necessary for civilization to survive.
- Rebellion comes only from “barbaric” forces, not from righteous grievances.
This is not a coincidence. It is the ideology of the empire, dressed in elven cloaks and spoken in the tongues of Gondor. And it is the ideology that Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Amazon Web Services, SpaceX, and every other technofascist appendage of the military-industrial complex are building into the very hardware of domination.
In the end, the nerd kings are not forging a new world. They are resurrecting the old one: a world of lords and serfs, walls and swords, kings and conquered peoples — all animated by the same ancient myths that once justified the empires of Europe.
To defeat them, we must not only expose their weapons. We must expose their dreams. For it is in their dreams — not only in their algorithms — that the next empire is being built.
IV. Case Studies: More Nerd Weapons, Companies, and Projects
Palantir and Anduril are only the tip of the spear. Beneath them lies a sprawling network of companies, contractors, defense programs, and technological initiatives, all inflected with the same Tolkien-derived mythology — and all quietly arming the technofascist restructuring of U.S. empire.
In this section, we map some of the lesser-known yet critically important examples, to show the depth and pervasiveness of the fantasy-fueled war machine being built in our time.
1. Grey Havens Group: Securing the Digital Shores of Empire
One of the more overt Tolkien references in the military-cybersecurity world is Grey Havens Group. Named after the port in Middle-earth where the Elves depart for the undying lands, Grey Havens Group describes itself as a “boutique cybersecurity and IT consultancy” — but in reality, it is deeply tied to U.S. defense contracts, Department of Homeland Security projects, and private-sector intelligence work.
Grey Havens specializes in providing “secure digital environments” for government clients — a euphemism for constructing walls of digital surveillance and control. In their own language, they seek to create “trusted networks” for “trusted actors” — neatly replicating the racialized and hierarchical logic embedded in Tolkien’s fictional Grey Havens: a space reserved for the elect, the pure, the chosen, departing from a corrupt world they no longer deign to save.
Behind the poetic branding lies the hard machinery of imperial security: data analytics, network monitoring, threat prediction, counterinsurgency by digital means.
2. Rivendell Associates: Intelligence Consulting for the Imperial Core
Another Tolkien-inspired entity is Rivendell Associates — a Washington, D.C.-based intelligence consulting group. Though smaller and less well-known than giants like Booz Allen Hamilton, Rivendell Associates offers elite consulting services for defense contractors, specializing in cybersecurity, counterintelligence, and geospatial analysis.
The choice of name is revealing. In Tolkien’s world, Rivendell is the hidden stronghold of the Elves — a sanctuary of knowledge and ancient wisdom from which the defense of Middle-earth is secretly orchestrated.
Likewise, Rivendell Associates operates in the shadows, advising on the construction of the digital architecture of empire. Its consultants — many of whom are former CIA, NSA, or Pentagon officials — see themselves as the Elven lords of the modern imperial project: guardians of sacred knowledge, protectors of the realm from the supposed barbarism lurking beyond the borders.
3. Nazgûl Drone Programs: Death from Above
Perhaps the most chilling example of Tolkien mythology infecting real-world violence is the informal naming of certain drone swarm prototypes as “Nazgûl Units”.
During the experimental phases of AI-assisted drone development — particularly under the umbrella of projects like Project Convergence — developers and Pentagon liaisons began referring to autonomous hunter-killer drone swarms as “Nazgûl units.”
The Nazgûl, in Tolkien’s mythology, are the Ringwraiths — the enslaved kings of men, transformed into deathless hunters who serve Sauron with relentless, mindless loyalty. The metaphor could not be more sinister. The U.S. military’s dream is to create autonomous death squads in the sky: drones that hunt, target, and eliminate without human hesitation or conscience.
These Nazgûl swarms are being field-tested for future warzones — and eventually, perhaps, for domestic counterinsurgency.
4. “Eye of Sauron” Surveillance Frameworks
Several leaked internal documents from the post-Snowden era revealed that engineers at companies like Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin occasionally referred informally to their wide-area surveillance projects as “Sauron’s Eye” frameworks.
Wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) systems, such as those deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, could monitor entire cities in real-time, logging every movement for predictive analysis. The idea was to build a “god’s-eye view” of urban environments — an all-seeing eye from which no insurgent, protester, or suspect could hide.
Now, under projects like GIDE (Global Information Dominance Experiments), the Pentagon seeks to integrate real-time global surveillance with AI prediction to act before events even occur — pre-crime at planetary scale.
The choice to nickname these systems after the Eye of Sauron is grotesquely fitting. It shows an unconscious admission that the goal is not freedom, or democracy, or even security — it is total domination through visibility and prediction, exactly as Sauron sought in Tolkien’s world.
5. Fantasy Branding Across Defense Startups
Beyond specific companies and systems, there is a broader trend of fantasy branding infecting the startup culture around military contracting:
- Valinor Technology — a now-defunct AI-driven geospatial intelligence firm, named after the “Undying Lands” of Tolkien’s mythology.
- Lothlorien Systems — a proposed cybersecurity shell company tied to former DARPA advisors, aiming to create “hidden forest networks” impenetrable to foreign intelligence.
- Numenor Defense Group — a venture proposal seeking funding to build hardened secure data centers for military clients, drawing inspiration from Númenor, Tolkien’s lost Atlantis-like kingdom of men.
All of these names — Valinor, Lothlórien, Númenor — are drawn from Tolkien’s vision of ancient, noble civilizations doomed to fall. The fantasy serves not only as branding, but as psychological armor: these startups are not merely selling products; they are selling the dream of restoring the fading glory of empire, one surveillance system at a time.
The War Machine as Fantasy Roleplay
What emerges from this investigation is clear: the construction of technofascist empire is not simply a technical project. It is a mythological project.
The men (and they are almost all men) who build the rings of surveillance, the drones of death, the towers of data, and the predictive Eyes of domination do not see themselves as corporate thugs or bureaucratic functionaries. They see themselves as heroes in a cosmic struggle: noble Elves, steadfast Rangers, wise Wizards — defending civilization against the dark tide of barbarism and chaos.
This fantasy fuels the violence they unleash. It anesthetizes their conscience. It justifies every drone strike, every data breach, every wall, every death.
To understand the future of war and empire, we must understand the dreams of the men who are building it. We must strip away their elven cloaks, tear down their ivory towers, and expose the brutal, reactionary fantasies that drive their technofascist ambitions.
For the empire of the future will not be built only with silicon and steel. It will be built first with myth — and then with blood.
V. Technofascism as the New Sauronism: Total Information Domination
We must be absolutely clear: the fusion of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Pentagon is not simply a desperate attempt to maintain U.S. global hegemony through brute force. It is the conscious construction of a total information domination regime — the forging of a real-world “Ring of Power.”
What Tolkien depicted in fantasy — a singular, all-seeing Eye bent on mastering all life — is now the conscious objective of the American technofascist order.
1. The Real Ring of Power: The Technofascist State
In The Lord of the Rings, the One Ring was designed to control all other rings of power. It was a device of pure domination, bending the wills of others to the forger’s command.
Today, the new Ring of Power is not a golden band. It is the integrated network of military AI, biometric surveillance, drone warfare, predictive policing, financial blacklists, content algorithms, and psychological operations.
It is not one company, not one agency, but the fusion of Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure’s JEDI Cloud project, Google DeepMind military applications, SpaceX Starlink satellite networks, and the Pentagon’s AI and Data Acceleration (ADA) Initiative.
This integrated system seeks what Sauron sought: the ability to see all, know all, predict all — and crush all opposition before it even manifests.
2. The Eye of Sauron: From Metaphor to Military Doctrine
The Eye of Sauron, in Tolkien’s mythology, was not merely a surveillance device. It was a weapon: an invasive, penetrating gaze that broke the will of its targets and reshaped the battlefield through fear alone.
Today, U.S. military doctrine mirrors this logic. Under programs like GIDE (Global Information Dominance Experiments), the Pentagon envisions pre-emptive warfare based on predictive AI analysis of global movements — allowing strikes to be launched before a formal declaration of hostilities, before enemy mobilization, before rebellion or insurrection even has a chance to ignite.
General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command, openly stated that GIDE aims to create “decision dominance” — the ability to see, anticipate, and act faster than any adversary, thereby negating their ability to resist.
In effect, this doctrine seeks to transform the world into a digital panopticon, where every movement, every thought, every act is visible to the Eye — and where potential threats are neutralized not through politics, but through algorithmic pre-crime warfare.
3. Total Information Warfare: Surveillance, Prediction, and Suppression
The technofascist model of power rests on three pillars:
- Surveillance — the extraction of total data from every domain: financial, biological, emotional, social, geographic.
- Prediction — the modeling of individual and collective behavior to anticipate resistance, rebellion, or geopolitical shifts.
- Suppression — the neutralization of perceived threats through censorship, assassination, economic strangulation, or autonomous violence.
This model is already being deployed both abroad and domestically. From predictive policing in American ghettos to biometric surveillance in refugee camps to AI-assisted targeting of “terrorist networks” in Africa and the Middle East, the empire’s new strategy is not mass occupation — it is mass prediction and precision extermination.
It is the transition from the old model of military empire to a new model: the Sauronist Empire of total information domination.
4. The Mythology Behind the Machine
None of this could be justified, even to themselves, without myth. The nerd kings — Thiel, Luckey, Schmidt, Musk, Bezos — frame their surveillance empire as the last defense of civilization against chaos.
Like the Ringwraiths, they are enslaved by the systems they helped forge, unable to see a world beyond domination. Like Sauron, they cannot comprehend love, solidarity, or collective liberation — only power, fear, and obedience.
In this light, the endless references to Tolkien among the empire’s engineers and executives are not cultural quirks. They are the ideological software that drives the hardware of conquest.
To them, we are not workers, citizens, or fellow human beings. We are statistical anomalies, potential insurgents, dangerous unknowns to be tracked, predicted, and eliminated if necessary.
5. Domestic Deployment: The Eye Turns Inward
As the contradictions of U.S. capitalism deepen — mass poverty, racial rebellion, ecological collapse, political polarization — the Eye will inevitably turn inward.
Already, under initiatives like predictive policing, fusion centers, and the counter-domestic extremism programs launched after January 6, the tools built for counterinsurgency abroad are being repurposed for counterinsurgency at home.
Palantir’s software was already used to assist ICE in deportations. Amazon’s facial recognition systems have been sold to police departments. Anduril’s autonomous sentry towers are being deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border. Drones initially designed for Iraqi battlefields are now patrolling American cities during protests.
As economic and social crises intensify, these systems will not protect democracy. They will crush dissent. They will preempt rebellion. They will enforce a digital apartheid, separating the “trusted” from the “untrustworthy,” the “loyal” from the “dangerous,” at the click of a button.
The Final Choice
In Tolkien’s mythology, the Ring could not be used for good. It had to be destroyed. Its power corrupted all who touched it, no matter their intentions.
The same is true of the technofascist surveillance empire being built before our eyes. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be democratized. It cannot be wielded for justice.
It must be broken.
As the nerd kings forge their digital Eye, as they sing songs of noble stewardship and civilization’s defense, we must remember: their vision of order is built on death. Their fantasy is our nightmare.
We are the free peoples of Middle-earth. They are the new Saurons.
The final battle is coming — not of sword against sword, but of solidarity against surveillance, of collective power against algorithmic tyranny, of human freedom against machine domination.
The Eye must be destroyed — and with it, the empire it serves.
VI. Building a New Fellowship Against Technofascism
Across every battlefield of the 21st century — physical, digital, psychological — the technofascist empire wages its war. Its weapons are not only guns and drones, but myths, dreams, and ideologies. And among the most insidious of these is the corrupted mythology of The Lord of the Rings, repurposed to justify surveillance, domination, and endless war.
But mythology is a double-edged sword. The same stories they seek to pervert can be reclaimed — reinterpreted not as blueprints for empire, but as allegories for resistance. If they are the Ringwraiths, we must become the new Fellowship: diverse, imperfect, but united by a single cause — to destroy the empire’s Ring before it enslaves the world.
1. Understand the Enemy: The New Saurons
Our first task is clarity. We must strip away the illusions. Elon Musk is not Tony Stark. Peter Thiel is not Aragorn. Palmer Luckey is not some misunderstood boy genius. Jeff Bezos is not building starships for human progress. Eric Schmidt is not safeguarding democracy through AI.
They are the new Ringwraiths — the servants of a decaying empire, forging the digital chains of a new technofascist order.
We must name them without fear. We must trace their networks — from Palantir Technologies to Anduril Industries, from DARPA to Amazon Web Services, from the Pentagon to Silicon Valley. We must show, clearly and relentlessly, that the men who claim to be “defending civilization” are in fact engineering its enslavement.
2. Build Counter-Mythologies: Reclaim the Dream
They understand the power of myth. So must we.
Against their fantasy of noble kingship and predestined domination, we must resurrect a different mythology: one of collective struggle, solidarity across race and nation, liberation through cooperation rather than conquest.
The real heroes are not found in the towers of Palantir or the corporate boardrooms of Anduril. They are the refugee crossing a border wall. The worker resisting algorithmic exploitation. The rebel rising up against imperial occupation. The community defending its land from surveillance, displacement, and ecological destruction.
Our stories must center these struggles — and expose the technofascist order for what it is: a final, desperate attempt by a dying empire to freeze history and silence the future.
3. Organize Resistance: Break the Rings
Myth alone is not enough. We must organize — locally, nationally, and globally.
That means building movements capable of resisting surveillance capitalism, opposing predictive policing, disrupting the military-AI nexus, and confronting the Silicon Valley-Pentagon alliance at every level. It means forging alliances between workers, the colonized, the marginalized, and all who refuse to be catalogued, predicted, and controlled.
It means fighting to dismantle the real-world Rings of Power: the databases, the satellites, the autonomous weapons, the censorship algorithms, the predictive AI systems.
As Tolkien’s Ring could only be destroyed by casting it into the fires from which it was forged, the technofascist empire’s tools of domination must be broken at their root: the structures of imperial capitalism and white supremacist domination that birthed them.
4. Prepare for the Struggle Ahead: The Long Defiance
We must not underestimate the enemy. The technofascist elite is rich beyond imagination, armed with technologies of surveillance and violence that previous tyrants could only dream of. They will not surrender their power willingly.
But as history teaches, even the mightiest empires fall. Even the most impenetrable fortresses crack. Even the darkest nights end with a dawn.
We must prepare ourselves — intellectually, spiritually, materially — for a long and bitter struggle. We must build organizations capable of surviving repression. We must forge international solidarity across borders and across struggles. We must educate, agitate, and organize with the urgency that the hour demands.
And above all, we must never allow ourselves to be seduced by the Ring — to believe that domination can be wielded for liberation, that empire can be reformed, that surveillance can be democratized. The system must be overthrown, not managed. The Eye must be destroyed, not appropriated.
Final Words: Our Time is Now
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote, speaking through Gandalf: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
We have been given a time of great peril — and great possibility. A time when the old order crumbles, when new empires claw for dominance, when the tools of domination threaten to choke the very future of human freedom.
But we have also been given the chance to fight. To organize. To build a new world beyond the Eye, beyond the empire, beyond the myths of racial hierarchy, feudal order, and technological domination.
It will not be easy. It will not be quick. But it will be righteous.
For we fight not only against the technofascist nerd kings and their corporate armies. We fight for all who dream of a world beyond domination. We fight for the living. We fight for the unborn. We fight for the earth itself.
And in that fight — in that fellowship — lies the seed of victory.
The Eye is watching. But we are rising.
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