Learn from the Past, Restore the Future
By Colonial
The reader will notice quickly that this blog focuses significantly on digital technology while also spending an inordinate amount of time exploring the ancient and the traditional. Myths, epics, premodern modes of thought, older forms of hierarchy, older understandings of excellence. This is not nostalgia or reenactment or some frightened attempt to flee the present. There is no path back to the ancient world, and even if there were, we would not take it.
We cannot go backward because the conditions that made the ancient world possible no longer exist. Technology exists, and it exists irreversibly. Science exists, not merely as a body of knowledge but as a mode of thought, a habit of mind, a way of interrogating reality that cannot be unlearned. Platonism exists, embedded into the deep structure of Western cognition, shaping how we think about forms, ideals, abstractions, and truth itself. These things do not vanish because we wish them away. Even an apocalyptic event would fail to erase them. Ruins still remember. Survivors still reason. Tools get rebuilt faster the second time.
More importantly, we do not want to go backward. The technologies available to us now, and the scientific means by which we create them, are power multipliers of a kind no ancient civilization could have imagined. They amplify individual will. They extend reach. They compress time and space. If sovereignty and greatness are ever to be reclaimed in an age dominated by a leveling, bureaucratic, communist panopticon that punishes excellence in the name of equality, it will be through technology, not in spite of it.
The problem is not technology itself. The problem is who controls it and what metaphysics govern its use. Modern technology overwhelmingly functions as a great equalizer, and that is not an accident. Firearms, sometimes known as "the great equalizer", are a clear example. They erase disparity in strength, skill, courage, and cultivation. A peasant with a rifle can kill a superior man from a distance, and the universe shrugs. Training, breeding, discipline, and excellence are flattened into statistical noise. Modern war is often not a contest of greatness. It is a numbers game managed by accountants and lawyers.
Today, we can train up a group of former D1 athletes to work as a SOF team, but several of them will lose their lives to peasants with AK-47s despite the massive disparity in ability, training, and general excellence between American SOF warrior and Somali Muslim types. The born aristocrat, the man of higher breeding, is too easily brought low in this environment. Even if you don't believe in "higher breeding", you must admit that the man of higher achievement is too easily brought low in this environment. Greatness is destroyed by equality.
This is why Bronze Age Pervert has pointed to fantastical technologies like the personal shields of Dune as a potential method of re-enabling greatness. Though he appeals to science fiction, the appeal is not escapism. It is philosophical. A technology that disables the great equalizer restores the relevance of excellence. It rewards proximity, courage, timing, and mastery. It makes the superior man dangerous again in a way that cannot be outsourced to industrial scale. The fantasy points toward a real desire: technology that amplifies distinction rather than erasing it, that reintroduces hierarchy into the physics of conflict itself.
So why look backward at all if our goal is in the future? Because our current paradigm makes it impossible to build such technologies, or even to understand why they would matter. The dominant worldview of the modern West denies hierarchy, mistrusts excellence, and pathologizes ambition. Power is framed as oppression. Achievement is reframed as injustice. Victory must be apologized for. Within this mental environment, technology inevitably drifts toward safety, surveillance, compliance, and control. Every sharp edge gets sanded down in the name of inclusion.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the contemporary tech ecosystem. Silicon Valley today is not a forge of greatness. It is a managerial economy masquerading as innovation. Venture capital rewards scale without soul, profit without vision, growth without risk. The men who dominate it are not builders in the classical sense. They are arbitrageurs and consensus chasers with a flare of the hype-man. Anything that genuinely empowers individuals over institutions is viewed as a threat, and threats are either neutered, regulated, or absorbed.
Outside the VC system lies the so-called alternative: the free and open source world. It presents itself as rebellious, decentralized, and pure. In reality, it is saturated with egalitarian moralism and informal enforcement regimes that are sometimes just as coercive as corporate HR departments. The FOSS ecosystem is choked with communists, soft anarchists, and their fellow travelers, men who despise ownership, hierarchy, and excellence while pretending to oppose corporate power.
Its enforcement mechanisms are social rather than legal, but they are no less effective. Reputation scores masquerading as merit. Contribution guidelines that quietly encode ideology. Maintainers who act as priesthoods, excommunicating dissenters under the guise of community standards. Property is rejected, leadership is distrusted, and vision is diluted into process. They do not want sovereignty in the hands of capable individuals. They want power dissolved into committees, forks, and a consensus of equality.
What is missing is a different way of relating to reality itself. A different anthropology. A different understanding of what man is and what he is for. The ancient and traditional worlds, for all their limitations, grasped truths we have deliberately forgotten. Excellence is rare. Hierarchy is natural. Meaning flows downward from greatness rather than upward from consensus.
We study the past not to resurrect its forms but to recover its orientation. We appreciate bronze armor and goat sacrifices, but they aren't what we're after here. We are interested in a worldview that celebrates strength, honors achievement, and accepts inequality as the natural environment of greatness. From that foundation, something genuinely new can be built, something far more powerful and beautiful than anything that came before.
Imagine a Homeric future. Not one of spears and chariots, but of starships and orbital fortresses. A future where space age heroes carve names into the dark, where excellence is visible and worshiped, where men strive not for comfort but for glory. This vision is not unique to this blog. It saturates our most enduring science fiction. Dune, certainly, but also countless others. Even Star Wars, more myth than science fiction, understands that the exceptional hero must stand above the mass if meaning is to exist at all.
The future worth building will not be managed into existence. It will be conquered. And conquest requires men who believe they are meant to rule something, even if that something begins as a line of code or a private server.
This brings us to sovereignty. Total sovereignty is not available yet. Not over land, not over planets, not over populations. But real sovereignty exists right now. In cyberspace, men can claim digital territory. They can build systems they control, networks that answer to them, platforms that do not beg permission. This is the frontier of the present age, and it matters.
This blog exists to cultivate that mindset. A territorial mindset. A colonial mindset. One that sees technology not as a neutral utility but as a weapon, a tool of dominion, a means of expansion.
Digital sovereignty is not theoretical. It already exists in concrete form for those willing to take responsibility. Self-hosted infrastructure. Private servers. Encrypted communications outside platform control. Independent identity, authentication, and payment systems. These are lifestyle choices and acts of futurist secession. We move to advance beyond the communist masses.
A man who controls his data, his communications, and his means of coordination controls territory in cyberspace. He cannot be deplatformed because there is no platform above him. He cannot be algorithmically suppressed because there is no algorithm governing his reach. This is how sovereignty begins in this age where land is locked down for "the people" and populations are managed.
We develop skills, systems, and philosophies aimed at increasing individual sovereignty now, with the explicit aim of preparing for larger frontiers later.
