[Uruguay / Tech-Utopian Movement] - The Escaping Self Builds a Phantom City to Flee the Disorder It Creates Everywhere

Event Baseline: Praxis, a New York-based crypto-backed 'digital nation', signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay after a worldwide tour. The group seeks to create a new sovereign community.

The project is a perfect image of the fragmenting self. It does not transform its own disorder. It tries to run away and build a pure place. The digital nation is a concept built by thought, and thought is the same tool that built the failed nations it flees. The new city will reproduce the same hierarchy, the same borders, the same excluded others.

The search for a clean start is an illusion. The dirt is in the mind, not in the land. The promise of a technological utopia is the old religious fantasy in new clothes. The self believes that a new geography will erase an old mind. It will not. The same conflicts will arise because the root is untouched. The tech-utopian will soon find enemies within the walls, and the walls will become another prison.