Archeofuturism

Technoprimitivism is an ideology that believes that though the advancements of technology have been beneficial to the human race, the shift in cultural values that happened alongside the technological developments have been bad for the human race. Therefore the society should go back to the cultural values of the past.

Homoestatic Social and Ecological Patterns
Technoprimitivism can take a variety of degrees and model itself after a variety of cultural traditions, taking a more Distributivist style modeling Catholicism, a more AnAg style modeling Rastafarian values or Hare Krishna values. Society is based on family units allocated approximately adequate land plots and taught permacultural techniques as a cultural tradition. Everyone is expected to farm. Entertainment and art is kept focused on physical media and shared with the community in festive rituals. Like a worldwide quilt of Amish colonies, but without an Rumspringa and no overt Religious authority, instead values that work in religious societies have sublated down to obvious and unquestioned, unobstructive social morays.

Some versions involve pre-agricultural patterns at lower population densities with less elaborate cultural patterns permitted to form, governance in these models involves tweaking populations at the margins through covert intervention.

Shadow Government
The social and geo-economic fabric of the hyper-majority is constrainted very efficiently by the Shadow Government, who use economic modeling, climate engineering and technological supremacy to only-rarely enforce near-mythological displays of law enforcement power. Thus the shadow government is something of a scientocracy that behaves like an Anarcho-Monarcho, intervening only periodically to keep boundaries on murder and other transgressive behaviors fresh in the minds of the population.

While generally always extremely minimalist, the posture of the shadow government may be authoritarian or totalitarian, and the staffing of the scientocracy may give way to a shadow Cyberocracy or AIocracy within the scientocracy. The taboo on developing strong AI within the scientocracy requires that human developers maintain the code base, and perform pattern recognition feats that specialized Machine Learning cannot do. All shadow governments would run weather/crop insurance, weather simulation, and limit dissemination of knowledge, some would veer into full weather control. A totalitarian shadow government also employs the AI behavioral simulation models of modern Neoliberal Technocracies, and seeks to identify anyone who is unhappy with the Status Quo and physically remove them to an appropriate controlled setting (sort of like The Matrix, but the opposite).

Transhumanism to achieve a better Primitivism
Only under the strict control of the ruling shadow AIocracy or Scientocracy, the human organism is adjusted through germ-line engineering (since it requires no supply chains) to extend human life span, reduce human susceptibility to disease, and moderate human inclinations towards violence. Realizing that following the ethos of not leaving the planet or developing Strong AI/Cosmic Engineering, there are only about 100 million years before the sun makes life on Earth horrible, the Shadow Government decides to have more fun. They include in their upgrades the seeding of small amounts of augs and devices, initiate different orders of "Mages" into these mysteries but only enough to inculcate a Cargo Cult of limited-knowledge, and then observe and experiment with thousands of multi-generation cycles of Mage empowerment, diffusion of the technology, attempted Mage-driven political formations, their conquests, rise and fall, until a coup within the Pull Request administrators of the Scientocracy changes the ruling AI to model a 0-Mage scenario only. Then the world can slowly return to homeostatic historical patterns.

Personality and Behavior
Despite being both a primitivist and transhumanist, technoprimitivism actually speaks normally, and can normally be found hanging out with either Anarcho-Primitivism or  Transhumanism (though this is often because he found them fighting and wanted to break it up).

How to Draw
Techprim_flag.svgDrawing Technofuturism is very simple:


 * 1) Draw a ball,
 * 2) Draw a blue line (#0000FE) diagonally through the ball,
 * 3) Fill the right side of the ball with the same blue color,
 * 4) Fill the left side of the ball with green (#198439),
 * 5) Add one white eye (#FFFFFF) with a black outline (#000000),
 * 6) Add the other eye with a grey outline (#7F7F7F) and paint it bright green (#0CFE05) and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Transh.png]] Transhumanism - These robot arms are cool dad.
 * [[File:Anprim.png]] Anarcho-Primitivism - ooga booga.
 * [[File:ReactPix.png]] Reactionary Modernism - Same basic idea, pretty much.
 * [[File: Progconf.png]] Progressive Conservatism - Me but on the cultural-axis

Frenemies

 * [[File:prim.png]] Primal Primitivism - You do want to return to a primal state, but I don't get the animalistic side.
 * [[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] Post-Humanism - Basically the same problem but flip flopped.
 * PagTheo.png Pagan Theocracy - Why can't I worship social media as Pagan gods?

Enemies

 * The divide of primitivism and technology.
 * [[File:React.png]] Reactionarism - I get that you want to "turn things back" but you need to turn them back more!
 * [[File:Progress.png]] Progressivism - I get that you want to "achieve progress" but you need to achieve more!
 * [[File:Conserv.png]] Conservatism - You claim to live by traditional values yet won't forage in the wild.

Videos
Primitive Transhumanism || Techprim by Jreg Techno-barbarians PBS Kids Commercial bumper Caveman Robot: The Time of the Mammoth

Channels
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