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Worst New Trend of 2024: Techno-Colonialism and the Network State Movement
A growing army of wealthy crypto bros say they want to secede from the United States and create their own global civilization.
The Network State movement was founded by Balaji Srinivasan, a former general partner at the powerful venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz who has, for the past ten years, spent much of his time advocating for this new form of society which—he seems to earnestly believe—will eventually replace our current world with its own. Brown says he previously worked for Pershing Square Capital Management—the hedge fund owned by billionaire and recent MAGA convert Bill Ackman—which he credits with helping him gain experience in utilizing the “SEZ frameworks” that are laying the groundwork for charter city development. Indeed, like Bannon, Srinivasan admits to having been influenced by The Fourth Turning, a book by William Strauss and Neil Howe that posits a theory of U.S. history in which cyclical catastrophes and societal destabilization usher in new ages of wealth and well-being.
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