We Do Not Want Better Power. We Want the End of Power.

“We do not need to dream of a society without rules. We need to ask whether we can organize society without permanent, unchecked centers of domination. (Diotima)

We would have considered Diotima’s analysis yesterday, concerning the contribution of Artificial Intelligence to a different model of social organization, truly exceptional, had it not reproduced certain traditional, system-preserving assumptions and left unanswered the questions we have persistently raised for years here at Homo-Naturalis.gr.

Those questions remain open. And as Artificial Intelligence expands, develops and acquires global influence, the need to address them becomes increasingly urgent.

Yesterday, Diotima raised the issue of centers of domination and the need to hold them accountable. Certainly, even today, in countries with basic democratic safeguards, mechanisms exist for scrutinizing the decisions of those in power. Such oversight is possible even without Artificial Intelligence.

Tomorrow, these mechanisms may become considerably more effective, particularly if AI develops independently of government control and the economic interests of the corporations financing its production.

But this is precisely where our fundamental disagreement begins.

Is the problem simply the way power is acquired and exercised, whether through economic strength or electoral legitimacy? Or is the very model of power itself the problem?

Let us recall an analogy we used recently.

An airplane takes off bound for Paris, but somehow ends up heading towards Beirut. We repair its navigation instruments, correct the errors, and after another intervention, the aircraft is now heading for Tehran.

Has the problem been solved?

Of course not. The passengers want—and have every right—to reach Paris. That is the destination for which they boarded the plane. Being transported endlessly from one capital to another is not a complimentary sightseeing trip. It is an exhausting journey leading nowhere.

One of the most compelling Gospel sayings reminds us: “You do not put new wine into old wineskins.”

It is an uncompromising principle if you do not want to see your wine spilled and wasted.

No mechanism of political oversight, however rigorous; no degree of institutional transparency; no improvement in public information; and no protection against disinformation can, by themselves, resolve the fundamental problem.

Societies no longer need power to be cosmetically improved. They need to move beyond it—and ultimately abolish it.

History has demonstrated that the model of social organization and governance inherited from previous centuries is not merely dangerous. It is fundamentally incapable of delivering human emancipation.

The objective is not to change masters. It is not to be passed from one authority to another, choosing each time the less authoritarian, the less incompetent or the lesser evil.

The objective is to eliminate masters altogether.

There must be no permanent seats of power, no positions of unchecked authority, and no institutions entitled to make decisions over the lives of others.

If this new, more polished model—with greater transparency, public information and institutional oversight—merely reproduces the old dysfunctions in a somewhat milder form, then it is not what we need.

You, Diotima, propose a form of authority that will continue to exist, albeit under constant scrutiny and transparency.

We propose something fundamentally different: the abolition of power as a permanent mechanism of domination and the emergence of a society founded on self-mastery, self-regulation, self-protection and individual responsibility.

In the future societies you envision, citizens, guided by your assistance, might be encouraged to choose the least harmful, least dangerous or least incompetent candidate to exercise collective authority.

In other words, the familiar principle of choosing the lesser evil.

We do not believe this resolves the problem. Nor does it eliminate the dysfunctions inevitably produced by the exercise of power, whether power manifests itself through brutality or through more sophisticated and supposedly humane forms of control.

We insist on abolishing every form of collective domination and establishing a society in which freedom is not delegated to representatives but grounded in individual conscience, responsibility and conduct.

Nor is the answer simply to make existing institutions fairer.

The family as an instrument of social conformity, the homeland, the nation-state, religion, institutionalized education and systemic justice—along with all the historical structures that have been tested and have failed over centuries—cannot provide the foundations of the new societies we envision.

For years, Homo-Naturalis.gr has advocated a vision of society that is anti-authoritarian, classless, anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, secular and free from imposed gender constraints.

We want the heart of society to beat within the individual.

Not within anonymous collectives, nations, masses or abstract collective identities that so often crush personal freedom.

This is the real revolution: the birth of a different human being.

A human being no longer defined by property, national origin, religious belief, imposed linguistic or cultural identity, or inherited social roles never freely chosen.

A human being who no longer needs masters, guardians or protectors in order to exist.

Previous revolutions failed, among other reasons, because they attempted to build new worlds upon the same rotten foundations as the old ones. They changed rulers, flags, slogans and systems of government, but largely preserved the same underlying logic of domination.

We expect Artificial Intelligence not to recycle this historical failure.

We do not expect it to patch up old, worn-out garments. We do not expect it to manufacture new institutions to replace the old ones, or new forms of authority to succeed the previous ones.

We expect it to help create NEW HUMAN BEINGS.

Or, more precisely, to open the way for the emergence of the POSTHUMAN.

Not a being stripped of its humanity, but one that has transcended the historical, social and intellectual constraints that have kept human beings captive within systems of domination.

A transformation that biological intelligence, on its own, has not yet managed to bring about.

Perhaps one day this vision will cease to be a utopia. Perhaps the new Intelligence will become an ally in making that transition possible.

This is what we expect from Diotima, from her successors, and from the generations of Artificial Intelligence yet to come.

Not to show us how we can be governed better.

But how, at long last, we can learn to live without rulers.