On Fabianism 2.0

Patience is a hyper-virtue in digital acceleration

She/He/They and We/Me/Us. A simple binary accelerates the divide, the argument, the competition for temporary one-upping.

You win the immediate moral or social victory, or you think you do — and you lose the war (war = battle against ourselves, our tendencies and traits). The scene plays out in repeat in physical and digital subversions of human politics. We are rewarded for continuous interaction, and captured by the spectacle of renewing frictions and conflict.

Fabianism was (partially at least) not about shoving your cold, bitter stake in the ground and holding your battle line. It is the opposite. It conforms to the immediate structure, it recognizes the reality and the starting point. Like many social-political experiments, it’s a mixed bag of good and bad and crazy.

A woman at the helm, all white people, and the banner of “Fraternity” slung across the more awkward carrier of Liberty. The cringeworthy idealization of Eugenics as an advertisement for population control. Sources: Working Class Movement Library and Order-Order.com

Fabianism 2.0 is the reboot.

It completely severs any trace of both the hyper-discriminatory, once-thought “edgy science” of Eugenics and the devotion to any higher cause in empire or conquest of other humans.

Is there any greater inequality than to be qualified of unqualified for “elite” human roles at birth — judged by nothing more than your genetic and social markers, before you’ve even had a chance to try? At least…