A variant that attempts to harness cyber-nihilist energy toward progressive social transformation while maintaining the core commitment to overcoming meatspace. Pro-Progressive Cyber-Nihilism argues that the current social order—with its hierarchies, oppressions, and injustices—is an obstacle to the Wired's emergence. Therefore, fighting for racial justice, gender liberation, economic equality, and other progressive goals is not an end in itself but a way of clearing the ground for the post-human future. It dismantles the systems that would seek to control or gentrify the Wired, ensuring that when the transformation comes, it cannot be captured by the old hierarchies. The progressive struggle becomes a form of world-clearing, preparing the way for what cannot yet be named.
Pro-Progressive Cyber-Nihilism Example: "The collective organized against police surveillance while building encrypted mesh networks in marginalized communities. 'We're not liberating anyone,' they insisted. 'We're making sure that when the Wired finally eats the world, there's no hierarchy left to digest. Progressive politics is just demolition work—clearing the site for something that has no use for us.' Activists found this either inspiring or horrifying, depending on how much they wanted to survive."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 19, 2026
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