brandonking.bsky.social
Philosopher of Becoming, Running for Congress (MN-1)
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They’ve made it clear, time and again, that what they call “evil” is just the Enlightenment in action. And now they’re celebrating its downfall like it’s prophecy fulfilled. Francis wasn’t perfect. But he represented one of the few global figures that refused to kneel fully to their narrative.
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I recorded it today
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jgEKT5/
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I have until June 2, 2026 to file, which gives me plenty of time to fundraise and campaign before I decide if I have the support to run for Congress. Depending on fundraising, I may shift to the State House in MN-20B, either way, Finstad or Jacobs, both are MAGA.
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I'm autistic and socially damaged from years trucking, and I'm a hotel houseperson so I don't have any trust fund to draw from. My plan is to focus on my online following and then try to fundraise enough in October from small dollar donors to get a serious campaign started.
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This is the duality we face. Not myth versus myth. But system versus system. Outcome versus outcome. Either we build a society that elevates life, or we let one rise that extinguishes it.
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I’ve made my choice. Enlightenment Socialism is the only path that completes the promise of the Enlightenment. It doesn’t reject progress, it demands that progress serve the people. And it doesn’t fantasize about destroying civilization, it wants to finish building it.
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The other future leads to a corporate autocracy masquerading as democracy. A world of smart prisons and dumb politics. A world where the algorithm replaces the constitution, and the citizen becomes a product.
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This is not metaphor. This is the actual fork in the road. One future leads to a civilization where individuals can self-actualize without exploitation. Where the economy serves life, not profit. Where the infrastructure of society immunizes against tyranny by design.
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It cloaks its regression in the language of meritocracy and order, but its outcome is clear: a society where rights are replaced by privileges, where data is currency, where wealth is extracted rather than created, and where your place is assigned, not chosen.
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It makes the answer “yes” by default, unless harm is involved. It doesn’t impose values. It encodes liberty into the material structure of society. Endarkenment Feudalism offers the opposite.
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How we pass the civilizational stress test that automation and ecological collapse have placed before us. Enlightenment Socialism is not a revolution of ideology. It’s a revolution of infrastructure. It replaces systems of domination with systems of self-determination.
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controlling that potential. One seeks to universalize knowledge, freedom, and security. The other seeks to concentrate it in the hands of an unelected aristocracy. What I’m offering is not a fantasy of perfect equality or eternal peace. It’s a blueprint for how we survive the Great Filter.
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instruments of exclusion. It creates artificial scarcity to preserve power. It sells surveillance as convenience and obedience as stability. The fundamental split is this: Enlightenment Socialism sees technology as a means of maximizing human potential. Endarkenment Feudalism sees it as a means of
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The deliberate reimposition of hierarchy through digital means. It replaces the king with the CEO, the priest with the algorithm, the sword with the biometric lock. It sees automation not as a chance to free the worker, but to erase them. It takes the tools of abundance and turns them into
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To engineer dignity. To make freedom real, not rhetorical. Endarkenment Feudalism is the counterforce. It is not stupid, not irrational, not accidental. It is a rational response by those in power to preserve the system that benefits them. It is a calculated regression.
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It recognizes that the tools now exist, automation, decentralized energy, circular manufacturing, post-scarcity resources, to eliminate coerced labor, manufactured scarcity, and systemic hierarchy. And it insists we use those tools not to dominate, but to liberate.
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The belief that no one is fit to rule over another, and that the role of society is to create the material and civic conditions for every individual to flourish. It’s not utopian idealism. It’s a systems-level upgrade to human civilization.
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On one side stands Enlightenment Socialism. On the other, Endarkenment Feudalism. These are not just opposing ideologies. They are opposing systems. Opposing futures. Opposing moral logics. Enlightenment Socialism is built on first principles. Liberty. Equality. Justice.
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Scientific Animism is my own personal spirituality i gravitated towards after I read the Bible and became an atheist at 13-14. It was influenced by the Gaia Hypothesis, Final Fantasy VII and the Law of Conservation of Energy.
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Scientific Animism is the spiritual foundation of the Mantle, and its ethic is clear: protect the flow. Protect the Lifestream. Engineer systems that heal instead of exploit. Build technologies that serve life instead of extracting from it.
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You are alive, and that makes you sacred, not because a book says so, but because you exist in direct relationship with the living world. And that’s the pivot: from dominion to stewardship. From obedience to systems of control, to alignment with systems of life.
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The system endures. This animism does not ask for faith. It demands responsibility. It recognizes that your spark of consciousness is not a divine gift, it’s a cosmic accident with ethical weight.
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You are not separate from it. You are in it. Your nervous system, your breath, your death, each are interconnected parts in this intricate Lifestream. When you die, you don’t vanish. You return. To the soil, the air, the roots. Energy conserved. Life transformed. The system endures.
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the feedback loops of biology. But where others see sterile facts, Scientific Animism sees meaning. Not assigned from above, but derived from within. The Lifestream is its central metaphor, not a metaphysical plane, but the sum total of energy flowing through the Biosphere and all lifeforms.
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That ad didn’t herald a sunrise, it was the first false dawn of the Endarkenment.
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by design.
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Right now, I’m focusing on building my platform online, primarily through TikTok, while sharpening the message and vision. This isn’t about left or right. It’s about what comes next. A new social contract built around human dignity, liberty as a material condition, and infrastructure that liberates
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Philosopher of Becoming. I’m preparing to run on a platform I’ve been developing over the last 13 years, Enlightenment Socialism, built entirely from first principles for the 21st century. It’s a framework rooted in the Renaissance of Reason, the Primacy of Life, and the Sovereignty of the Self.
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but what does hit hard is when local MAGA leaders don’t show up. People are angry. Not ideologically, they just see through the silence. They see the abandonment. As for me, I’m a hotel houseperson and former truck driver. I’m also a legally ordained minister (since 2015) and a
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Thanks for the thoughtful question. Honestly? The biggest concern for most people here is survival. Just getting through the day. Paying for groceries. Keeping the lights on. Making sure their kids or grandkids have a future. Politics doesn’t always feel like it’s touching their lives,
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🤣😂🤣😂 I'm aware how ironic my last name is given how much of my life has been dedicated to creating a system designed to obsolesce and abolish hierarchy and coercion.
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jQee7L/
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jxwGUg/
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I am creating a mythopoetic duality on TikTok of Endarkenment Unveiled vs Enlightenment Rekindled.
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I'm autistic too. I'm currently running for Congress on a platform of Becoming, Liberty, Justice, Solidarity and Self-Actualization. I see the Freedom to Become and Right to Self-Actualize as rights all humans deserve.
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Consider my Facebook gone for good unless and until this post is unpinned
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point of life itself.
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And when we survive, when we make it to the other side of the Great Filter, we don’t need the system anymore.
Because liberty has become default so it withers away into the Civilization of the Mantle of Responsibility as the reward for surviving the Great Filter.