Civilizational Regression: How Supremacist Ideology Is Dragging Humanity Toward Extinction

 

Civilizational Regression: How Supremacist Ideology Is Dragging Humanity Toward Extinction

Not Through Progress, but Through Deliberate Backward Motion

I once argued that white supremacist ideology would not stop until it destroyed humanity itself. At the time, my concern was framed around transhumanism, post-humanism, and artificial intelligence—the fear that a small, ideologically rigid elite would engineer a future that excluded most of the human species.

What I failed to fully factor in then was regression.

Not technological regression alone, but moral, psychological, and civilizational regression—a deliberate retreat into older, more brutal modes of thinking. Today, it is increasingly clear that humanity is not racing forward into a human future; it is being dragged backward, toward conditions resembling the medieval era—or worse. If this trajectory continues, extinction is no longer a dramatic metaphor. It becomes a plausible outcome.

Not the extinction of one group, but of the human species itself.

Empire, Theology, and Control

To understand how we arrived here, we must examine the historical architecture of dominance.

The Council of Nicaea (325 CE) did not invent Christianity, but it politicized and standardized it under Roman imperial authority. Emperor Constantine’s objective was not spiritual enlightenment; it was imperial cohesion. Competing narratives, texts, and interpretations were suppressed in favor of a single, state-approved theology.

This marked a decisive shift: religion became an instrument of empire.

From that moment forward, Christianity increasingly functioned not as a moral philosophy but as a disciplinary system, one that justified conquest, hierarchy, and obedience. The Crusades, colonial expansion, forced conversions, and enslavement were not accidents or deviations—they were logical outcomes of a theology merged with imperial power.

Islam, emerging later within the same geopolitical and patriarchal framework, inherited many of these structural features: rigid authority, absolutist truth claims, and expansion justified by divine mandate. Whatever their internal complexities, neither tradition, once fused with empire, produced outcomes that could be described as constructive for humanity as a whole.

What matters here is not faith, but power—and how supremacist ideologies repeatedly weaponize belief to dominate others.

Regression Disguised as Order

We are now witnessing a global return to these patterns.

Countries that once spoke the language of scientific progress, planetary stewardship, and space exploration are moving toward militarization, conscription, and siege mentality. Public discourse is no longer about expanding human potential, but about defending borders, preparing for war, and accepting mass death as inevitable.

It's not evolution. It is collapse management.

The rhetoric is eerily familiar—1930s logic recycled for the 21st century. Fear replaces imagination. Control replaces curiosity. The future shrinks.

Power Without Care

Alongside this regression is a deeper, more unsettling realization: those shaping the global trajectory do not appear to care whether humanity survives.

Some frame this in spiritual or extraterrestrial terms—speaking of competing forces, patriarchal versus matriarchal intelligences, custodial versus extractive relationships to life. Whether one accepts these interpretations literally or metaphorically is secondary. What matters is the pattern.

One model of power treats life as livestock: managed, exploited, and discarded when inconvenient. Another—whether imagined as maternal, ecological, or ethical—treats life as inherently valuable, worthy of protection and continuity.

The dominant global systems today clearly resemble the first model.

Ideology, Not Biology

This brings us to figures like Elon Musk and the broader political climate surrounding him.

Musk is often framed as a futurist, yet the world he helps normalize is one of authoritarian aesthetics, social Darwinism, and contempt for collective welfare. His formative years in apartheid-era South Africa matter—not because of biology, but because systems imprint psychology.

Apartheid was not simply racist policy; it was a total epistemology—a worldview that trained its beneficiaries to see others as infrastructure rather than as sentient equals. That conditioning does not evaporate simply because someone acquires wealth or technological influence.

This is not about race. It is about ideological inheritance.

Supremacist systems deform perception. They narrow empathy. They reward dominance and punish solidarity. When individuals shaped by such systems gain global influence, the consequences are no longer local—they are planetary.

From Mars Dreams to Military Drafts

The irony is stark.

We were told the future was spacefaring, exploratory, expansive. Instead, we are being asked to accept military drafts, permanent conflict, and shrinking freedoms as normal. The dream of Mars has been replaced by the logic of trenches.

This is not because humanity lacks imagination or capability. It is because supremacist ideologies cannot coexist with a genuinely shared future. They require hierarchy, enemies, and perpetual crisis to survive.

And so they choose regression over transcendence.

The Real Threat

The greatest danger humanity faces is not artificial intelligence, extraterrestrials, or abstract spiritual battles.

It is the persistence of supremacist thinking in positions of power—thinking that cannot tolerate equality, cannot imagine mutual survival, and cannot accept a future it does not exclusively own.

Such ideologies have always ended the same way: collapse, violence, and ruin.

The tragedy is that this time, they are armed with technologies powerful enough to make that collapse final.

If humanity does not consciously reject regression—if it does not dismantle supremacist frameworks at every level—then extinction will not come from the stars.

It will come from our refusal to outgrow the worst parts of ourselves.