Predatorialism: The Great Convergence

Posted on by Juergen Hoebarth

There’s a pattern emerging beneath the noise.
A direction of travel so large that most people miss it because they’re looking at the surface-level spectacle—robots doing CPR, AI chatbots, satellite launches, glowing desert megacities.

Zoom out, and the shape becomes unmistakable:

The world is racing to build an AI-powered, globally connected automated civilization.

The differences are cosmetic. The underlying logic is the same across every actor—Musk, the West, China, Russia, the Middle East.
Each block is constructing its own flavor of a post-human infrastructure.

This is the great convergence.

1. Musk: The Sovereign Machine Civilization

He’s not building companies.
He’s building layers of a technological organism:

  • Optimus: universal worker
  • Grok: universal intelligence
  • Starlink: universal connectivity
  • Tesla: manufacturing and energy backbone
  • SpaceX / Starship: expansion and logistics
  • X: information infrastructure

A closed-loop stack.

A body, a brain, a nervous system, a power source, a logistics chain, and a communication grid—all owned by one individual, not a state.

This isn’t industry.
This is sovereignty.

A privately-owned, self-sufficient machine civilization.

2. The Middle Eastern Acceleration

Gulf nations see the writing on the wall. Oil is finite, populations are small, and megaproject ambitions are infinite.

Their strategy is simple:

Become the new gravitational center of automated infrastructure.

AI-managed cities (NEOM, The Line), massive robotics investment, sovereign AI labs, desert-based data centers, and a willingness to integrate technologies at a speed Western democracies can’t match.

They want:

  • autonomous construction
  • robotic labor to replace migrant workforces
  • AI governance
  • hyper-connected desert megazones
  • neutrality between U.S. and China to become the “Switzerland” of AI

The Middle East isn’t following the future. They’re building a parallel version of it, sovereign and post-oil.

3. China: The Technocratic Leviathan

China’s path is the most obvious:

AI as governance.
AI as industry.
AI as population management.
AI as social control.

Robotic factories, drone-dominated airspace, AI policing, and full-stack domestic supply chains.
This is the centralized, state-directed machine civilization.

Where Musk builds autonomy,
China builds compliance.

Where the Middle East builds megaprojects,
China builds perpetuity.

4. Russia: The Autonomous Warfare State

Russia cannot compete in AI consumer technology.
So they choose the battlefield instead.

Their path:

  • autonomous drones
  • robotic armor
  • AI targeting
  • electronic warfare
  • anti-satellite capability
  • militarized autonomy
  • hardened networks

If the U.S. and China build machine civilizations,
Russia builds a machine battlefield.

Their AI isn’t for prosperity, it’s for survival.

5. The Western Cloud Empire

Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia.
The corporate model.

Their goal is universal digital labor:

  • AI agents
  • humanoid robots
  • on-demand intelligence
  • cloud-run infrastructure
  • compute monopolies

Their civilization is virtual first, physical second.

APIs in place of laws.
Data instead of citizens.

6. The Real Answer: What Everyone Is Building

Strip away the narratives, and the convergence is brutally clear:

An automated planetary infrastructure
where AI plans, robots execute, satellites coordinate,
and human labor becomes optional.

Different ideologies.
Different costumes.
Same endpoint.

  • The U.S. builds a corporate AI empire.
  • China builds a state-controlled AI technocracy.
  • Russia builds autonomous warfare.
  • The Middle East builds AI-run megacities.
  • Musk builds a sovereign machine civilization stretching from Earth to Mars.

Five roads.
One destination.

The post-human economy.
Not in theory.
In motion.

7. The Question That Matters

If everyone is building toward an AI-powered, globally connected workforce—manufactured at scale, running on proprietary networks, deployed via private rockets, governed by their own rules—

the real question is not:
“Is it happening?”

It’s:
“Who will own the automated civilization when it arrives?”

Because whoever owns:

  • the robots,
  • the intelligence,
  • the compute,
  • the satellites,
  • the energy,
  • the manufacturing,
  • the logistics,
  • the expansion stack—

owns the future.

Predatorialism is not about pessimism.
It’s about recognizing the structure of the hunt.

And right now, the hunt is for nothing less
than the sovereignty of the post-human world.

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