Aristocratic Modernism/Technology

𝕬𝖓𝖙𝖎-𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖍𝖚𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖒

Man (insān) is created upon the Fiṭrah, the primordial nature, the divine pattern, the reflection of the Higher Principles. Man is the microcosm (al-insān al-kāmil), a reflection of the macrocosm, meant to realize transcendence. The purpose of human existence is vertical ascent, tahqīq (realization) of spiritual perfection, not horizontal mutation into something unnatural. Thus, Man's nature is fixed in its essence, though flexible in its accidents. Any attempt to "improve" Man through purely material, mechanical, or genetic means betrays the cosmic order. Transhumanism believes that Man can and should perfect himself by his own technological powers and that aging, suffering, and even death are "problems" to be "solved" technologically. It arises from the luciferian spirit of modernity through revolt against natural limits and hubris in trying to remake creation according to human will instead of divine wisdom. This is the final stage of the Promethean rebellion, counter-initiation leading to inversion of all sacred values. The body is the instrument (āla) of the soul, not its master. The soul's perfection is achieved through virtue, wisdom, and divine remembrance (dhikr), not through mechanical augmentation. Transhumanism aims to sever the body from its sacred symbolic meaning and create a new "species" of post-human beings, biological or digital monsters without spiritual grounding. Instead of transcendence, transhumanism leads to dehumanization, a world of soulless cyborgs, programmed minds, mechanized lives, a living hell, an "anti-Eden". Transhumanism is totalitarian because it must control everything because altering human nature requires absolute control over genetics, education, bodies, thoughts, and even emotions. It cannot tolerate Tradition, religion, metaphysics, anything that affirms Man's sacred and inviolable nature. Therefore, transhumanism inevitably becomes totalitarian, imposing a techno-scientific dictatorship over every aspect of life. Freedom, dignity, and personality will be sacrificed to the "efficiency" and "upgrading" of the human machine. Quantitative society, obsessed with matter and measure, culminates in mechanized slavery. Transhumanism is not just "problematic", it is the ultimate rebellion against God, the total corruption of human nature, and a path to dystopian tyranny that seeks to build Hell on Earth in the name of "progress". Man was created noble (akramakum). His purpose is not to become a machine, but to become a perfected mirror of the Divine. Transhumanism is the path of spiritual suicide. It is the duty of all true believers, philosophers, and guardians of tradition to resist it with wisdom, courage, and faith.

𝕸𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖌𝖞

I view true political sovereignty as derived from the Divine Order. Dependence on foreign empires (America, China) for weapons undermines this sovereignty. Mercantilist realism teaches that strategic dependency means economic slavery and moral humiliation. “He who controls your arms, controls your fate.” Weapons and military systems must not transgress Natural Law or Divine Order, there must be no engagement in unjust wars (i.e. war for purely material greed) or soul-degrading technologies (e.g., autonomous killer drones, transhumanist soldier augmentation). Military technology must serve the Common Good and defensive honor of the Folk. National Armament Guilds (Craft + Tech Hybrid), inspired by Islamic guild systems (futuwwa) and Confucian-Thai craftsmanship traditions, must combine engineers + artisans + religious ethicists in state-sanctioned arms production and focus on quality over mass quantity, with spiritual discipline and precision (like Japanese Meiji samurai-industrial fusion). State-funded R&D sectors for aircraft, drones, missile systems, naval engineering, modeled after early-modern Prussia or post-war France, not neoliberal outsourcing, must be created. There must be a creation of public-private hybrid defense entities, owned by the monarchy or state trust, which runs like efficient corporations, but answerable to the Crown and Folk, not merely shareholders, and appoint engineers, soldiers, and religious scholars to oversee moral and technical governance. All rare earth mining (needed for advanced weapons) must be under national control, barring foreign firms from owning or exporting these resources, and creating local processing and metallurgy hubs near military factories. Islamic ethics (like Jihad as inner struggle and just war) in officer training schools must be embeded, which will lead to the creation of a "warrior-aristocracy" modeled after figures like Khalid ibn al-Walid and Thai warrior-monks, not mercenaries or bureaucratic generals. This promotes the defense of Tradition, not the export of ideology. There will be partnerships with Egypt, Türkiye, or some European countries on joint arms development, but technological independence must be maintained. Alliances with Western democracies or Eastern dictatorships, whose military ethics are secular and modernist, must be avoided. Weapons are not toys of profit or tools of mass destruction, they are extensions of a sacred order, forged to preserve the vertical link between Heaven and Earth, especially in a world descending into disorder. Military sovereignty is thus not just militarism, but also honor-bound stewardship.

𝕹𝖚𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝕻𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗

Nuclear energy, while being limited, tends to be the cleanest energy source on Earth as well as being even more powerful than fossil fuels. The gerontocrats and environmentalist parties who lobby with oil tycoons should be strongly opposed. Also, what happened in Fukushima can’t be blamed on nuclear energy because it’s more of how prone the location to natural disasters, and what happened to Chornobyl can only be blamed on poorly-trained industrial workers. Nature (ṭabī‘ah) is not just "material", it is a theophany (tajallī), a manifestation of Divine Qualities. The Qur'an constantly reminds us that every tree, every river, every mountain glorifies God (tasbīḥ). "And there is not a thing but that it glorifies Him with His praise." - Qur'an 17:44 Thus, destroying nature means insulting and desecrating a visible sign (āyah) of God. Preserving nature is therefore a religious duty, part of the Common Good (maṣlaḥah ‘āmmah). The economy must be ordered toward the collective well-being, not private bourgeois profits. A sovereign authority (monarchy) must wisely manage resources for the long-term health of the realm. Short-term exploitation of nature (deforestation, poisoning rivers, carbon corruption) undermines the realm’s prosperity and stability. Thus, real economic strength comes from sustainability, not from reckless burning of nature for quarterly profits. This is rational sovereignty, not free-market anarchy. Green political parties today are often co-opted by corporate interests (especially oil companies, ESG profiteers), focused on symbolic politics (rainbow flags, vague "climate activism") instead of real environmental solutions, and hostile to real, practical technology (like nuclear power) because they are ideologically utopian, not technical realists. In reality, many "climate initiatives" are just smokescreens to enrich monopolies or enact global bureaucratic control. Real conservation requires strong, sovereign leadership, not decentralized NGO networks tied to billionaire funds. Thus, the "Green movement" is largely a controlled opposition. Nuclear energy is powerful, clean, efficient, it respects the order of nature by minimizing waste and provides energy sovereignty without relying on unstable oil markets. Hydroelectric energy uses the natural flow of rivers wisely, which is renewable and non-polluting and can be locally managed by sovereign states. These solutions, serve the Common Good, reduce dependence on global oligarchies (oil cartels, "green tech" monopolists), and allow a country to be self-sufficient and maintain stable economic and spiritual life. Nature is not a "resource" to be exploited, nor a "cause" to be marketed. It is a sacred trust from God, a visible text revealing the Divine Names. To protect nature is to protect ourselves, and to preserve the right ordering of the world under a Sovereign guided by Truth.

𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙-𝕴𝖓𝖉𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖒

The challenge is not industrialism per se, but its disordered application, where material progress is severed from metaphysical order, natural law, and communal well-being. Thus, the solution is not to regress into romantic feudalism or to embrace postmodern techno-capitalism, but to re-integrate technology into an agrarian-industrial balance rooted in Tradition, subsidiarity, and the Common Good. While industrialism brought prosperity, it also led to alienation of labor (Marx diagnosed this symptom, but not the cause), urban overcentralization (breaking local bonds and guilds), desacralization of work (from vocation to wage labor), domestication of man (Guénon: the “mechanization” of the soul), and environmental ruin and entropy (violating the balance of mīzān). This is because modern industrialism lacks a telos, a final cause ordered toward divine, human, and communal ends. A post-industrial, agrarian-industrial synthesis guided by Natural Law would include Peri-Urbanization, a return to organic settlement patterns where urban and rural are no longer divided but merged into small-scaled, self-sufficient towns, people live near local farms, workshops, clinics, temples, and mosques, and craftsmanship, farming, and technology exist within the same walkable spaces. This is similar to the traditional model where urban group cohesion is preserved through proximity to rural moral vigor. Technology is not evil, but it must be subordinate to ethics, metaphysics, and nature. Ideas like transhumanism, AI domination, and biotech eugenics are violations of fitrah (human nature), and technology that enhances nature (such as nuclear or hydroelectric energy), supports community autonomy (such as decentralized power grids or distributed manufacturing), and respects the rhythm of human life (work tied to daylight, not 24/7 exploitation) must be embraced. Hence, modernity’s flaw is not machinery, but its misuse. Influenced by distributism, but elevated through mercantilist coordination, the state will promote cooperatives, family-run industries, and guilds, redistribute capital into productive property (land, tools, shops), not speculative finance, use protectionist policies, ESOPs, and local currency credits to keep wealth circulating in towns and villages, and allow industrial production that serves the Common Good and reinforces moral and spiritual order. This creates an economy where technology supports man, not enslaves him. Under this system, the Monarch is the supreme steward of balance, ensuring that urban development doesn’t uproot people from the soil, rural areas are not abandoned nor technologically backward, and the aristocracy (in the Traditional sense) invests in dignified industry, not speculative financial empires. Monarchy allows for long-term investment into national coherence, which democracies often abandon for short-term electoral gains. The state will invest in local transit rails (connecting small towns to cities without car dependency), decentralized internet & communication hubs, training institutes combining vocational, artisanal, and metaphysical education, and hydroponics, aquaponics, rural electrification, and craft-based microfactories. Such infrastructure doesn’t impose the megalopolis on the village, it empowers the village to self-sustain and prosper. This Traditionalist post-industrial society sees Nature as a divine trust, sees technology as a tool, not a metaphysical idol, organizes the economy around dignity, subsidiarity, and communal flourishing, and uses monarchy not to control all markets, but to guide their ends toward the transcendent. Technology is good insofar as it serves the perfection of the human soul and the error of modernity is confusing the tool with the telos.