The most interesting thing going on now in terms of rightism, Greater Cascadia, and the intersection of the two is the conquest of SF by Silicon Valley, and their increasing rightist alignment.

Among other things, this means “donglegate” and that BS is significant, not because SRS is conquering tech but because it isn’t. Moldbug, for all his high profile, contributes nothing novel but his “neocameralism” reformulation of the Divine Right of Kings in corporate shareholder idiom, but that’s exactly the idiom of VC and startup culture.

Silicon Valley’s run by people who read their SF and know worldbuilding and the intentional construction of societies. A while back Google decided to hire a lot of non-STEM Ivy Leaguers, pay them equivalent wages, and bring them on main campus, and have them do customer service gruntwork that could’ve been outsourced.

For one, now they’ve got a cadre from which to cultivate PR, government relations, and other political functions. For two a lot of the hires were smart women. I forget what color badges this group has but they’re called “the pretty ones”. After all, not all the techs are going to stay forever satisfied with the armies of Korean prostitutes imported to the AAMPs on the edges of the Valley.