Trilogy on the Structural Implosion of Liberal Democracy
Editorial Note – On the Trilogy and the Method
This text is the final part of a trilogy on the structural fragmentation and implosion of the liberal order.
It traces the disintegration of three foundational fictions:
And now, the demos as collective subject
These are not surface shifts.
They are structural ruptures having no remedy.
The damage has already gone too deep.
And the same media form that enabled the fragmentation
continues to reproduce its logic —
not by correcting it,
but by amplifying the conditions that make it irreversible.
Elections no longer settle questions.
They are no longer conclusions, but battles within an open series of battles —
each one reigniting what the previous failed to resolve,
escalating difference into existential threat,
and transforming procedure into permanent conflict.
This trilogy does not argue, defend, or lament.
It exposes collapse — not as event, but as pattern.
Each section reveals a fracture.
Each phrase names what ideology conceals.
We do not seek justice or identity.
We seek structure.
We show what no longer holds.
This method is based on structural statistical calculation, not on argumentation.
It is the cyborg’s method.
This is the method: not persuasion, but tectonic exposition, mapping of failures.
I. Introduction – Democracy as a Fiction of Psychological Homogeneity
The democratic order did not rest on real equality, but on a shared psychological fiction: the fiction of belonging among equals — not factual or material equality, but the structural equivalence of the abstract citizen. We belong to each other: We, the People.
Differences of sex, income, belief, and race were tolerated — as long as they could be neutralized through the symbolic framework of democratic equality.
This fiction has collapsed.
What remains are fragments, each claiming centrality: moral superiority over those that are “only” citizens. What matters now is not belonging to the nation, but to an oppressed minority.What matters now is not to be equal, but to be different — and to be proud of it.
II. Psychological Homogeneity as the Structural Condition of the Demos
Democracy needs the psychological homogeneity of belonging to the same collective entity: not factual sameness, but to be citizens of the same nation.
Citizenship worked as a structural filter of real differences.
The uniform world of print codes and laws on the fiction of citizenship kept difference from becoming central.
Electric media resonate, amplify, and place all differences — from the sexual, through the cultural, to the merely individual and psychological — at the center of collective perception.
Mass migration, under the dogma of multiculturalism, did not diversify the demos — it dismantled it.
This heterogeneity is not just ethnic or linguistic. It is psychological, cultural, religious — differences in values, in time orientation, in expectations about life, work, family, sex, and death. Even taste, pace, and mood differ. It is not just a matter of identity, but of different — and very often incompatible — ways of inhabiting the world.
The result is not pluralism, but fragmentation without reconciliation, heterogeneity without symbolic filtering, and cohabitation without shared form.
Once, the law was for equals. Now, it multiplies — for those who claim any difference or injury, including the subtlest forms of oppression and exclusion.
Shouting injustice, the result is not tolerant deliberation but to demand revenge as retribution and compensation — pugnacity.
III. From Common Citizenship to the Implosion of Liberalism in the Politics of Pain
Citizenship is replaced by identity-based grievance.
Difference becomes injustice. Injustice becomes resentment. Resentment demands reparation — not recognition, but compensation: revenge.
Difference is no longer filtered through a shared fiction of equal citizenship. It is exhibited, amplified, and reclassified as harm.
Identity is now origin and destiny: sex, race, desire, abnormality — and increasingly, a legal caste. Farewell equal citizenship. Farewell liberalism.
Even not suffering becomes a form of guilt:
If you feel no pain, it is because you made others suffer — you are the oppressor, the one who discriminates and excludes.
Final image:
A kingdom of wounds, where the most injured rules and the hierarchy is a differential of accumulated wounds. Farewell liberal democracy.
Don’t forget:
Farewell equal citizenship.
Farewell liberal democracy.
Farewell liberalism.
The system, claiming to be democratic, sinks in illiberal waters while staging social justice through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
IV. The Medium Resonates: From Real Difference to Psychic Fragmentation
The medium does not transmit; it amplifies, frames, and resonates.
Differences once deemed irrelevant become markers of oppression, tokens of suffering, and instruments of power. Farewell, liberalism. Farewell, the principle of equality before the law.
And yet, many claim to be democratic while unhesitatingly supporting identity politics — swimming far from the liberal shore into deep illiberal waters.
The fracture follows a triad — and together they form the conditions of possibility of identity politics, especially under democratic regimes of open access to electric media:
Real heterogeneity — sex, race, origin, language, belief, income, body, beauty, mode of childhood, idiosyncratic manners.
Democratic communication — every difference reaches the open media demanding: attention, empathy, revenge.
Electric media: digitally based press, radio, TV, social media — amplifying each into injustice, resentment, and revenge desire. sex, race, origin, language, belief, income, body, beauty, mode of childhood, idiosyncratic manners.
The result:
No demos, only a resonating extended nervous system (McLuhan) without coherence and unity.
Multiculturalism emerges as:
– A fantasy of harmony through difference
– A ritualized disintegration disguised as inclusionIts real outcome:
Laying the groundwork for functional dehumanization.
V. Refusal of the Body: Hedonism, Feminization, and the Imported Demos
1. The Disappearance of Effort
From locomotive drivers and auto mechanics to jet pilots, to brokers, to coders and influencers — at least coaching experts.
The dream shifts from mastery of machines to avoidance of the body.
No one wants to fight, to build, to bleed — not even grasp a tool. Everyone wants to manage images and avoid sweat, pain and sacrifice. The AI-based broker who struck gold, the influencer, the sports celebrity, the media icon — even the university professor, or at least a well-paid Substacker — are the new ideals.
Vilém Flusser was right: with new media, we no longer work on nature — we manufacture symbols. Which we now call content: whether spectacular images or dense texts.
2. The Real Condition of Woman
The woman of the liberal order does not reject motherhood because she is strong. She rejects it because she finds pleasure in autonomy — in being single, in pursuing activities or income that motherhood would obstruct.
But pleasure in autonomy entails the avoidance of commitment, responsiveness, and even the slightest trace of sacrifice.
She also sees the fate of the solitary mother:
Exhausted body, scattered mind, absence of male support — a support previously denigrated as oppressive or evil.
Child raised by screens, affection replaced by fatigue. Mothering, when it occurs, is increasingly outsourced by the elites to immigrants.
Maternity as sentence, not fulfillment: “Ein Kind ist ein Stein auf dem Weg,” say German girls — not as lament, but as sober fact.
The rejection of motherhood is as much hedonism and self-defense as it is ad hoc ideology. Increasingly it ends in the cat-ladyness. And we all know it, but only a few dare to say it.
3. Substitution: From Migrants to Robots
First, imported labor replaced the citizen-worker.
Then, migrant wombs replaced the reproductive couple.
Now: machines should replace both.
Hands from the periphery, algorithms from the cloud.
The demos becomes fragments united by an automated platform.
4. The Hidden Logic of Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism was never about inclusion.
It was a hedonistic bridge:
– To avoid pain
– To outsource sacrifice
– To bypass reproduction
The outlined final triad of the post-democratic structure:
1. Those who live beautifully.
2. Those who vegetate on rents.
3. Those (robots) who work without rights, without sweat, without complaint.
Multiculturalism was the declared aim.
Robotization seems to be the output.
Yet this final triad is only one possible resolution of liberal disintegration.
But that dream is unlikely to hold.
What is more probable is not order — but implosion:
The uncontrolled multiplication of real heterogeneities,
amplified by emotional media,
uncontained by any symbolic fiction.
A demos torn into incompatible segments, each armed with its own grievance,
each demanding recognition,
each refusing equivalence.Not a triad, but a thousand cracks.
The shattered mirror of the nation, as J. Haidt puts it following M. Gurry.
This is the horizon toward which the liberal structure truly moves: not stabilization through tiers, but decomposition through mediatic resonance — rendering cacophony and pugnacity.
This is the karmic return of a civilization that sought cheap labor while radically abandoning physical effort — something denigrated as undignified or beneath them.
To use one’s hands is now for underdogs. This is a civilization mit Abscheu gegen Arbeit — a civilization with contempt for labor.
A society in which giving birth is seen as shameful — something for the lower women.
A society where simply being a white, heterosexual, native man is enough to be branded as misogynistic, racist, or phobic — in short: a fascist.
VI. The Structural Tragedy – Neither Empire Nor Nation
Liberal democracy dreamed of ruling the world. Now it cannot even hold itself together: neither in America, nor in Western Europe.
It promised both universal inclusion and individual uniqueness.
It promised global empire and intimate identity.
It promised to transcend nature, tradition, constraint.
What it produced is fragmentation and overreach. It is the hubris: neither morality, nor the planet, nor identity. Only a conglomerate of failures.
Liberal capitalism worked too well.
It generated so much prosperity, so much affluence, that work no longer seemed necessary.
We can eat food from across the planet, import anything, travel anywhere, and own objects beyond all functional need.
Millions study without producing. Millions of pets live better than past generations of humans.
Hundreds of universities offer programs designed for leisure rather than necessity, for disturbance instead of social functionality.
We live in surplus—so much so, that we forget life once required sacrifice, once demanded work, once needed men — and women giving birth.
And in this condition of surplus, grievance becomes theater,
and pain becomes performance.
What it leaves behind is neither empire nor nation.
The empire failed because it lacked control.
The nation failed because it lost form.
– The empire could not impose unity.
– The nation could not sustain belonging.
What remains is a moralized archipelago of sensitivities,
floating in the wake of collapsed universals.
There is no Roman order.
No Han bureaucracy.
No Ottoman tolerance.
Only a digital fog of rights, emotions, and wounds —
with no center, no sovereignty, no sacrifice.
The demos cannot be rebuilt.
– The body and birth have been outsourced.
– The mind has been fragmented.
– The past has been erased.
– The future is no longer desired.
There is no inheritance.
No discipline.
No reproduction.
No command.
The structural tragedy is not decline.
It is self-dissolution.
Not conquered, not overthrown —
but unbound from within.
Unbound by abstraction,
unbound by luxury,
unbound by speed.
No one is coming to save the republic.
Because the republic already left.
VII. The Aesthetic of Collapse
Liberal democracy does not die in horror.
It dissolves in multimedia lights, playlists, and reels without end, overwhelming streaming, 24/7/355 live sports, and always growing e-commerce.
And yet, ever more minorities speak of systemic oppression.
The end does not come with tanks or revolutions.
It comes with influencers speaking of empathy,
CEOs promising inclusion,
and governments indexing feelings instead of laws.
It is not a fall.
It is a float —
a slow descent into memorylessness, irrelevance, and structural weakness.
The final aesthetic is one of feminized complaint — without structure, without nerve,
compassion without sacrifice,
presence without future.
What remains is the choreography of terminal performative empathy in the midst of a cacophony of always growing grievances.
What is lost is form — and with it, the nation.
Epilogue – The Tectonic Method: Seeing What Is
We do not argue.
We do not persuade.
We show what everyone already knows.
We name what no longer fits,
without nostalgia, without condemnation.
We belong to each other — We, the People —
was never a truth.
It was a fiction that worked,
a structure that allowed difference without rupture.
That structure has broken.
Now the fragments speak only to themselves.
This is not about morality.
It is about form.
Not about justice.
But about compatibility — or the lack of it.
About functionality — or rather the lack of it.
We do not diagnose decay.
We expose structural collapse.
To see clearly,
without cause or flag,
is not resistance —
it is the search for structure that holds.
The core is: democracy needs homogeneity — yet pugnacious heterogeneity has taken hold of the reproductive couple, of the citizenship, and of the demos.
Ahead lay only postliberal alternatives.
The Postliberal Cyborg is the Path — with or without me.
Perhaps I have now read the most comprehensive, yet succinct, pre-post-mortem of our declining empire. Thank you.