Let’s travel to the world of Silicon Valley, where they, too, have been philosophizing about a paradigm shift but with a darker twist…

The rhetoric goes something like this:

Democracy is too slow, is too inefficient, is too messy, and is way too human.

What if we ran a country like a corporation with no moral tape to bind it?

What if we hired a CEO instead of a president whose focus is profit over people?

What if we replaced a ballot box with a boardroom?

We’d streamline… Optimize… Control.

And those who don’t provide for the corporation get eliminated.

To some, it sounds like a bold move. An innovative idea. Even inevitable to some.

But to anyone with a sense of history, or a moral compass, it’s a terrifying prospect.

Sure, a country focuses on profit, but when you look at our founding documents, it is so much more. Every American founding document’s focus is on the happiness of the people, not profit.

And we’ve seen it before. It’s called a monarchy, which we fought to eliminate to the bitter end.

And it’s never ended well. Remember King Ludwig, who built castle after castle while people starved…

Or the queen who told us to eat cake?

Technocracy in Disguise

Let’s be clear: the modern push for CEO-style government isn’t about innovation and happiness for the people.

It’s disguised as authoritarianism, all wrapped up with a tidy bow in tech branding.

A digital oligarchy. A monarchy with better PR.

Some of today’s most powerful tech elites are proposing “startup cities” and “network states” where a few wealthy founders make all the decisions… economically, socially, and politically. In these privatized utopias:

The government owns all the land, and the people are its servants.

You don’t own your house anymore; you rent it from the system.

If you want to buy it back, you’ll need capital.

And if you don’t have capital? You don’t have power or a voice.

Seems to me we’re going backward in time with a modern twist of technology.

It’s feudalism hidden inside a hoodie.

What Jefferson Knew

Even Thomas Jefferson saw it coming. He warned us:

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

In other words: If corporations start acting like governments, and governments start acting like corporations, freedom itself is on trial.

Jefferson didn’t glorify freedom because it was easy. He knew it was difficult, imperfect, and slow. But he also knew it was worth more than gold.

Because the alternative is always the same: rule by the few over the many.

CEO Rule = Winners Take All

In this dystopian corporate model, everything becomes conditional:

• You bought your home with a mortgage? That deed can be revoked.
• You want it back? Purchase it back again—if you can afford it.
• Don’t have capital? Then you don’t get to participate.

It’s a system where wealth decides who gets to play, and everyone else is simply along for the ride or cast aside.

This isn’t a future or utopia; it’s a Hunger Games dystopia.

This is the old paradigm, but even worse…

It’s a return to monarchy, but this time through unfiltered capitalism with a stripped moral framework.

What We Need Instead

We don’t need kings in Silicon Valley.

We don’t need CEOs in political office.

We need a moral democracy… simpler, clearer, more ethical. We need a Dignity Democracy.

This isn’t about left or right. It’s about up or down.  Do we rise into a more compassionate age, or regress into a digitized monarchy?

Philosophy must hold the line. Because freedom without any morals or ethics is chaos in disguise.

Leadership without integrity and the Voice of the People is tyranny.

And democracy without ethical philosophy, a lover of wisdom, is just another illusion sold to the highest bidder.

Let’s not trade away our freedom for efficiency.

Let’s stop electing brands instead of people.

Let’s build a system rooted in dignity, reason, and the courage to think for ourselves and BE the voice of government.

Your thoughts?

Let’s philosophize!