In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve their goal of a multipolar world of interconnected smart-city states; that is, a regionalised world that they and their oligarch partners will rule as neofeudal monarchs. In Part 1, Davis focuses on the deceit this oligarch network is using to drag us all to ruin and how it is controlling the Trump administration, whilst Part 2 will focus on their neocolonial ambitions in the Middle East.

In my latest book, The Technocratic Dark State, I explore the influence of a powerful collective of Silicon Valley oligarchs. These oligarchs, as we shall see, have captured and now effectively control the second Trump administration. They like to go by many names: accelerationists, neoreactionaries, technocrats, the Tech-Bros, TechnoKings, CEO dictators, and more besides. We can now add "Praxians" into the mix. Though, personally, I prefer "Neonerds."

The Praxians are part of a global oligarch network that is exploiting public-private partnership—stakeholder capitalism—to imprison humanity in their digital panopticon. The primarily US-based Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—the Praxians—extends beyond what many call the PayPal Mafia. In addition to Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, and other formative PayPal Mafiosi, the cast of characters propping up the current US administration, who evidently share Praxian goals, includes the likes of Mark Andreessen, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and others.

Both within the US and internationally, this gaggle of venture capitalists and technology entrepreneurs are seeking to exploit artificial intelligence (AI) and population surveillance technology—what the United Nations (UN) calls "frontier technology"—to firmly establish Technocracy as a worldwide governance system. At the existing global governance level, the UN, which is a public-private partnership, is equally eager to roll out Technocracy.

One of the Silicon Valley aligned oligarchs' flagship projects is "the world's first Digital Nation" of Praxis on Greenland. The Trump administration's overtures to seize Greenland were no coincidence. Given the heady mix of strange new theological concepts, pseudo-philosophy and naked techno-feudal imperialism that these oligarchs seem to value, it is worth noting that the word "praxis" means the process of practically implementing a theory.

The people who support the Praxis Nation project self-identify as "Praxians." The Praxis website claims there are more than 151,000 Praxians in 401 cities across 82 nations whose businesses are collectively valued at more than $1.1 trillion. Perhaps there are that many, but the businesses that constitute the bulk of the claimed $1.1T total valuation are controlled by a close-knit cartel of Praxian oligarchs who are relatively small in number. It is these oligarchs who are the focus of this article and whom I specifically refer to as "Praxians."