Former aide to the President of Russia Vladislav Surkov predicts that the current conditions of digitalization and robotization of the political system will inevitably lead to the emergence of a high-tech form of state – deserted democracy. The corresponding article was published in the publication “Actual Comments”.
Surkov emphasizes that in the future the human factor will be less and less important – its role in the political process can be sharply reduced or completely eliminated for the sake of the efficiency of management systems.
“Leaders and crowds will gradually leave the historical scene. And the cars will come out on it, ”the former presidential aide notes and emphasizes that deserted democracy will become the highest and final form of human statehood on the eve of the era of machines.
The author of the publication believes that a technogenic state will emerge in which “the hierarchy of machines and algorithms will pursue goals that are beyond the understanding of the people serving it.” In addition, on such a platform, a line of secondary and intermediate models of political existence will be built – a dwarf superpower, an ecological dictatorship, a post-patriotic community, a virtual republic.
In his reasoning, Surkov relies on the concept of deserted production – high-tech, automated and robotic enterprises. He mentions the concept of the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who considered machines to be a kind of “extension of man” and an extension of his body and organs, as well as the opposite idea that the machine is a product of man, which seeks to separate from him. The author of the article notes that “just as man descended from a monkey, so the machine descends from man and takes his place at the pinnacle of evolution.”
On June 18, Surkov compared President Vladimir Putin to Emperor Octavian, because, in his opinion, just like the founder of the Roman Empire, he combined democracy with a monarchical archetype. According to him, the Russian leader has created a “new type of state.” Surkov believes that the Russian leader acted like Octavian Augustus, who managed to “preserve the formal institutions of the republic” and the loyalty of the people.