If you want to understand exactly what the Silicon Valley billionaire class actually thinks of the working class, you do not need to read between the lines; you just have to read their own terrifying manifestos. Palantir, the massive data analytics and defense contracting firm heavily embedded in the United States military and intelligence apparatus, recently published a deeply disturbing ideological blueprint they call "The Technological Republic." It is not a business plan; it is a blatant, authoritarian demand to merge unaccountable corporate tech power with the lethal force of the federal government. Any private corporation operating under this specific, radicalized belief system should be immediately and permanently banned from holding a single government contract.
You do not even have to read their terrifying twenty-two-point manifesto to understand exactly how deeply sinister this corporation actually is; you simply have to look at the sheer, unhinged arrogance of what they chose to name themselves. "Palantir" is a direct, deliberate reference to the fictional universe of J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings*. In the mythology, a Palantir is an ancient "seeing stone" used to spy across vast distances. But the crucial, horrifying context is that these stones were ultimately hijacked by the supreme dark lord of the series to surveil the world, corrupt the minds of political leaders, and orchestrate endless, devastating warfare.
The fact that a massive data-mining monopoly (one explicitly building domestic surveillance grids and military targeting algorithms for the federal government) deliberately named themselves after a fictional artifact of pure, corrupting evil is not some cute, nerdy inside joke. It is a terrifying, blatant admission of their actual intentions. They are openly telling the working class that they view themselves as the all-seeing eye of a dystopian empire, and they are literally bragging about their own villainy right to our faces.
The entire foundation of Palantir’s manifesto is the aggressive privatization of the military-industrial complex. In their points regarding "hard power" and AI weapons, they explicitly state that the engineering elite must actively participate in national defense, arguing that whoever builds AI weapons will control the century. They do not want to be just a software vendor; they want to be the architects of the American war machine. Handing the keys to our national security over to a private, profit-driven tech monopoly that views global conflict as an inevitable software engineering challenge is a recipe for endless, mechanized warfare.
But the absolute most offensive, enraging point in their entire twenty-two-point doctrine is their stance on the working class bleeding for their wars. Palantir explicitly calls for a return to the mandatory military draft, stating that "national service should be a universal duty." Let that sink in. The billionaire executives sitting in air-conditioned boardrooms, building the AI targeting systems that will ignite the next global conflict, are actively lobbying the government to force your working-class children onto the front lines to fight it. They want to socialize the physical risk in blood while they entirely privatize the financial profits.
When they are not demanding the working class fight abroad, they are demanding the right to surveil us at home. The manifesto insists that Silicon Valley must "play a role in addressing violent crime" in our local neighborhoods. For a company like Palantir, whose bread and butter is massive, unregulated data harvesting and predictive analytics, this is a terrifying threat. It is a direct pitch to turn our local police departments into heavily militarized, algorithm-driven surveillance states, treating everyday American citizens like enemy combatants in their own communities just to test out their new tech.
While they demand total surveillance of the public, they aggressively demand total secrecy for themselves. Two separate points in their manifesto explicitly complain about the "ruthless exposure" of public figures and demand we show "far more grace" to the politicians and elites running the country. They view holding the ruling class accountable for their corruption as a "petty assault." It is a blatant, hypocritical demand for absolute immunity: mass surveillance and zero privacy for the working class, but total, unquestioned protection for the political and corporate elite.
The ideological arrogance expands well beyond government mechanics; it bleeds into highly dangerous cultural supremacy. Palantir explicitly declares that certain cultures are "dysfunctional and regressive" while openly attacking the concepts of pluralism and inclusivity in the West. It is deeply terrifying when an unaccountable defense contractor—a company that actively decides who goes on watchlists, who gets surveilled, and who gets targeted by military algorithms—openly holds supremacist views about which subcultures are "valid" and which ones are "regressive."
This manifesto also actively demands that society stop holding the billionaire class in contempt. They literally complain that the public "snickers" at billionaires like Elon Musk and insist we should be applauding them instead. This reveals the true allegiance of Palantir: they do not serve the American Republic; they serve the oligarchy. They are actively trying to construct a society where the ultra-wealthy tech elite are treated as untouchable philosopher-kings, completely immune from the criticism of the everyday people whose lives they are aggressively trying to engineer.
They are even arrogant enough to lobby for the destabilization of global security frameworks to drum up more business. The manifesto demands the "undoing" of post-WWII pacifism in Germany and Japan, arguing that these nations need to be remilitarized. A private software company should not be dictating international geopolitical alliances. They are actively advocating for a massive, global arms race simply because a remilitarized Europe and Asia means billions of dollars in brand new government contracts for their AI defense platforms.
When a private corporation explicitly holds a political ideology this authoritarian, handing them state power effectively bypasses the democratic process entirely. We do not get to vote on Palantir’s board of directors, yet they are actively managing the data that runs our intelligence agencies, our military, and our domestic law enforcement. By continuing to award them massive federal contracts, the government is officially endorsing a worldview that views the working class as draftable cannon fodder and the elite as untouchable rulers.
The American public must draw an absolute, uncompromising line in the sand. We cannot allow an unelected, technocratic oligarchy to dictate the future of human freedom under the guise of national security. Palantir's "Technological Republic" is a dystopian nightmare, and any politician who takes their money or awards them a contract is actively selling out the working class. If this independent journalism brings you value, your voluntary contribution gives me the absolute freedom to keep tearing down these corporate monopolies. Links are in the first comment. Subscribe to the Substack for the full archive.
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