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Silicon Valley’s elite have always seen themselves as more than just businessmen. They are visionaries, architects of the future, the ones who will guide humanity into the next phase of evolution. They talk about AI, longevity, and the end of nation-states as if they are inevitable, as if the old world is already crumbling, and they are simply preparing for what comes next. And now, with the Trump administration back in power, they have found their political enabler.

JD Vance, the new Vice President, stands on a stage in Paris and tells Europe to back off. He warns them not to stifle innovation, not to let bureaucracy strangle the AI revolution before it even begins. He speaks the language of Silicon Valley, the language of disruption, of boundless optimism, of progress that cannot be stopped. At the same time, Trump announces a $500 billion investment in AI, a clear signal that America will not let China take the lead. Regulation, ethics, governance—these are concerns for lesser minds. The real work is happening in the labs, in the code, in the minds of the men who believe they can reshape the world itself.

They are not just trying to build companies. They are trying to escape. Escape from death, from aging, from the constraints of democracy, from the meddling hands of regulators and lawmakers who do not understand the scale of their ambition. Peter Thiel has spoken openly about it. He funds research into longevity, into genetic engineering, into ways to push the human lifespan beyond its natural limits. Larry Page and Sergey Brin pour money into Calico, a company that wants to defeat death itself. Christian Angermayer, a billionaire investor, believes that soon he will be able to make himself biologically eighteen again. They do not see themselves as mortal in the same way the rest of humanity does. They are not planning for retirement. They are planning for forever.

But to do this, they need places beyond the reach of laws. The dream of the floating city, of the startup nation, of the offshore biotech lab where no government can interfere. Seasteading, crypto enclaves, genetic research hubs in jurisdictions willing to turn a blind eye. Balaji Srinivasan’s vision of the “network state,” a world where the most talented simply exit the system and create their own, is no longer a theory—it is a roadmap. And those with the money and power to make it happen are already moving the pieces into place.

They say this is about progress. They say that what they develop will eventually benefit everyone, that the first genetically enhanced humans, the first true AI systems, the first longevity treatments, will trickle down to the masses in time. But others are less sure. Yuval Noah Harari has warned that we are heading towards a biological caste system, where a genetically perfected elite will separate themselves from the rest of humanity. Dominic Cummings and his Silicon Valley allies talk of breeding a new kind of genius, selecting for intelligence, shaping the human future not through education or opportunity, but through DNA itself. This is eugenics, reborn and rebranded, presented not as horror but as inevitability.

And now, as this ideology takes shape, the most powerful government in the world is stepping in to help. Trump and Vance are tearing down regulations, smoothing the path, ensuring that nothing stands in the way of AI dominance, of genetic enhancement, of the vision of a post-human future. They see AI not just as an economic force, but as a tool of global supremacy. The new arms race is not in missiles, but in algorithms. And while China and America battle for control of the future, those in Silicon Valley are positioning themselves above it all, preparing to transcend the very idea of the nation-state, and perhaps, one day, the human species itself.

For the rest of the world, there is no escape. There is only the accelerating machine, the cold logic of the algorithm, the vast and growing divide between those who will become gods and those who will be left behind.

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