Change the world through politics?
What nonsense.
Politics, politics. Freedom, freedom. Democracy, democracy—
shout these words as loud as you like,
and what shape of the world will change?
Elections as ritual, street carnivals of noise—
and what comes of it?
Only a minor reshuffling of the inept aristocracy who call themselves politicians.
The fever passes, the heat cools,
and all returns to the fog from which it came.
Politicians are but actors on a stage—clowns in suits.
The loudest voice, the most familiar name, the heir, the shameless opportunist—
only such creatures climb atop cars, waving, pretending to plead to the masses.
Today, the only ones eager to perform such theater
are politicians blinded by their own hunger.
But even they are not the true masters.
Strings are pulled from higher still,
and these politicians only tumble as commanded.
Yet above even the ruling class exists one tide they cannot resist:
the advance of technology.
Change society through politics?
Change society through the people?
Don’t make me laugh.
The people are pawns to be mobilized.
The politicians—disposable tools.
And they know it,
which is why they cling desperately to their seats,
snatching what spoils they can before their term expires.
But technology’s advance—this alone cannot be stopped.
History makes it plain:
it was never the speeches of revolutionaries that reshaped the world,
but the thunder of innovation.
The printing press unleashed thought.
The steam engine expanded empires.
The internet erased borders.
And now, a new upheaval looms.
The fate of AI is the fate of humanity.
Its evolution is unstoppable,
accelerating exponentially,
an avalanche consuming the future.
I have seen a vision of what is to come—
a future geometric, ordered, precise, and beautiful.
A world, a society reborn as perfect beauty,
appearing before us in terrifying symmetry.
Cold in its order.
Mad in its beauty.
Do you think such a thing could ever be wrought by politicians?
Change the world through politics?
The thought itself is absurd.
The world is changed only by technology.
—And the wave is already upon us.
This is the English version of the article → Japanese version（日本語版）