Faye’s anti-modernity is a façade to cover up his loathing for democratic values. Soon he reveals his avant-garde against modernity, which is ‘biopolitics and technoscience’. Like a shining entrance of a decadent grand empire, opening up only to reveal a horrifying abyss, Faye’s Eurosiberia has a chilling secret. Eurosiberia is an ethnocracy, a homogeneous ethnic federation, which practices ‘biopolitics’, a policy to preserve and improve the biological quality of its inhabitants.
It uses technoscience to achieve this goal. His technoscience aims to improve humans (genetic engineering) and use biogenetics to multiply the racial pool of people. As Faye clearly explains, ‘you can’t do techno-science with humanitarian values’. He blames the ‘weak spirit of humanitarianism’ and does not shy away from acknowledging that biopolitics and technoscience combined amount to eugenics. According to Faye, ‘eugenics is the improvement of people’s genetic quality’.
This nightmare was crystallised in a vision of the future laid out in a chapter in his 1998 book Archeofuturism, explaining the life of Dimitri, a top diplomat of Eurosiberia. The year is 2073, and Dimitri travels in a ‘planetary train’ across the vast Eurosiberian empire. Dimitri is a ‘bionic’ man, and he has ‘biotronic chips’ implanted under his scalp; he needs only one-hour sleep. He is also fitted with an ‘ultra-performing heart and a liver’, and diseases of these organs are things of the past.
Grudgingly, Faye also envisions that America is, by then, an agricultural economy, never recovered from the Great Catastrophe that occurred before the rise of the Eurosiberian empire in 2030. What a vision! It cannot be more evident than this. The so-called ethnostate Faye wanted is nothing more than an ethnic nightmare that would strip the very humanity out of its inhabitants.
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