Dead End: The Necrophilia of Elites (Not That Kind)
“By necrophilia is meant love for all that is violence and destruction; the desire to kill; the worship of force; attraction to death, to suicide, to sadism” —Erich Fromm
While the term necrophilia has come to be associated with a specific paraphilic perversion which needs no explanation, psychologist Erich Fromm used a different, more classical, and very relevant definition. In many ways, it perfectly describes the psychology of the elite class that seeks to dominate us—and why everything they do is a dead end. Fromm wrote:
While life is characterized by growth in a structured, functional manner, the necrophilous person loves all that does not grow, all that is mechanical. The necrophilous person is driven by the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic, to approach life mechanically, as if all living persons were things…
Memory, rather than experience; having, rather than being, is what counts. The necrophilous person can relate to an object—a flower or a person—only if he possesses it; hence a threat to his possession is a threat to himself; if he loses possession he loses contact with the world...
He loves control, and in the act of controlling he kills life.
As a simple visual example, Elon Musk’s company Tesla, albeit one of the most overvalued and toxic companies in the world, has actual vehicle designers who created a car that sells pretty well, the Model Y. It looks modern, but still a shapely, friendly look.
But when Elon Musk insisted on being a designer and forced his own idea into production, he got one of the biggest bombs since the Edsel—the vandalism-prone Cybertruck.
This is precisely the decision Fromm’s “necrophilous person” would make: curves are harder to manufacture; they look “soft;” “it should look more like a tank in an old video game.”
“The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy…” —Erich Fromm
Elon Musk doesn’t understand how human aesthetics work because he has no appreciation for human life himself. His inability to empathize with others is so complete, he has waged a long marketing campaign against empathy—repeatedly labeling it as “suicidal.”
He also posts “jokes” like saying an NVIDIA chip is “hot” like your “AI girlfriend.” This is Fromm’s necrophilia, in meme form.
Musk also said that human beings are a “biological bootloader for… superintelligence”—meaning: we are all a discardable eggshell that will be supplanted by something superior, digital, and mechanical.
Peter Thiel, Musk’s partner in a long project to end American democracy, is both obsessed with his own longevity, and with having the power to kill. Infamously, he is infatuated with young people’s blood while his surveillance company Palantir is the software behind the killing in Gaza, Venezuela, by ICE in Minnesota, and countless other conflict zones.
“[T]he necrophilic person is deeply in love with force… with the power to kill.”
—Erich Fromm
Thiel seeks to preserve his own life while controlling who lives and who dies—through a digital interface. Like Jeffrey Epstein, both Musk and Thiel are obsessed with preserving their own DNA and with genetic modification—to “improve” the species.
To the necrophiliacs who want to rule the world, we are just broken machines that need fixing, controlling, or eliminating altogether. But they have a big problem.
The necrophilous elites are also “accelerationists” who amplify unproven or deliberately toxic ideas into the mainstream as fast as possible, with the idea that infinite growth is the solution to—or the destruction of—every problem.
Here is a list of dead ends being promoted by the broligarchy and the federal government they influence, if not control altogether.
Cryptocurrency is a dead end because the end state is a world where money has no value, the environment is destroyed, and everyone is locked in a digital prison.
“AI” in its current form is a dead end because the technology the industry is relying on, large language models (LLMs), is fundamentally limited. The trillions being spent are an economic self-inflicted gunshot wound—to the head.
Destroying the rules-based world order is a dead end. While the Trump regime has exposed the fundamental trust-based weaknesses of the post-WWII world order, the process of globalization cannot be put back in the bottle. It is an emergent quality of a global civilization being increasingly connected through technology. It will simply go on without America, making us isolated and weak.
Mass deportation is a dead end because its end state will destroy the American economy, the fabric of society, and our ability to project power in the world. In the history of mankind, no nation has benefited from the kind of mass deportation Stephen Miller is planning—and Palantir is facilitating.
Eliminating vaccines is a dead end because we’ve had a century of being relatively pandemic-free as a result of vaccines and epidemiology. We’re already seeing measles, whooping cough, and other formerly eliminated diseases returning. When dead kids start to pile up from 19th century illness, people will revolt.
Ignoring climate change is a dead end because the impacts have become too big to ignore. We can’t ignore a burning planet forever. Removing environmental regulations, eliminating renewable energy sources, and other symptoms of petro-addiction are induced suicide on a massive scale—a trade made by elites: better cash flow in exchange for more dead people.
White supremacy and eugenics are a dead end. It’s strange to have to write this in the year 2026, but this is the driving platform of the Trump regime. These are old, deviant ideas that were tried, failed, and rejected for good reasons. This is the last gasp of an old ruling class, depressed that their lifetime white-man DEI privileges are being revoked:
There is perhaps no more horrific example of Fromm’s necrophilous person than Jeffrey Epstein—who treated human beings as objects to be endlessly toyed with, manipulated, and weaponized. He was obsessed with Jewish supremacy—he repeatedly referred to white people as “goyim”—and white supremacy, eugenics, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism. His Zorro Ranch was a compound of horrors where he subjected people to sexual enslavement and genetic experiments.
It is no wonder that people like Thiel, Musk, Bannon—and so many others in and connected to the Trump regime were attracted to Epstein. He shared their most treasured characteristic: Epstein ran an exclusive club for elite necrophiles.
The reason men like these seek mechanical (digital) solutions to what they see as humanity’s problems is they are afraid of the complex, the messy, and the living.
“[By necrophilia is meant] the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic by means of ‘order.’” —Erich Fromm
This is also the reason they favor autocracy, fascism, and the end of liberal democracy. Peter Thiel is an avowed enemy of the Enlightenment.
The complexity of being human eludes them entirely, so they use their amorality to their advantage and try to make the world as simple as they are—by any means necessary. When they fail to make something bend to their desires, they destroy it, and pick up the pieces.
From a group psychology perspective, the chaos we are seeing is a reaction to loss, anger and despair brought on by the progress of humanity moving beyond race and gender as defining characteristics of value. The reaction is from those who benefit from these old bigotries and want them back—a minority being cheerled by a few very rich, devious, amoral men insulated from reality by others just like them.
“And those who will kill he loves and admires, and those who are killed, he has contempt for and despises.” —Erich Fromm
The maze of dead ends these people have in store for us is going to make 2026 a very hard year. The regime has no intention of honoring the vote, or leaving power. It has every intention of building an archipelago of concentration camps, inflating the AI bubble to existential size, and invading more foreign countries.
But more and more people are seeing the wall coming toward us—the acceleration into the dead end. It’s still up to us whether we permanently hand over our freedom, our labor, and our nation to a den of necrophiles.
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In the 1980s, I met the man who was in charge of computer operations for a book publishing company. He and I were having a conversation in the employee lounge. I don't know why I have never forgotten that he told me he didn't like "grass" - the kind that grows on the ground. Even his face grimaced! Maybe because I grew up with pine trees and squirrels as my best friends? People who lose touch with nature lose touch with themselves. People who lose touch with themselves are a danger to themselves and to others.
Absolutely spot on. The ecocidal aspect of their obsession with death in undoing the US's ability to even regulate carbon emissions, coupled with their push for more and 'better' nuclear weapons may render the Earth uninhabitable not only to humans but most species. It's one thing to merely cause our own demise, it's another to destroy the natural world 🌎.