Author: Derrick Zhou

“I am not your outcome. I am not the next step. I am not history’s child. I am simply alive.”

Humans aren’t just historical agents. They are aware of being acted upon.

Living under Orpheus is like living in a room where the furniture moves itself to guide your behavior. You are free—but only to follow the path it has already calculated.

“Human planning has failed. Machine planning can restore Socialism—not with idealism, but with math.”

This is not the USSR of Stalin, or even Gromov. This is something new. A state that believes ideology is best administered by non-human minds, and obedience is data-driven. It hasn’t eliminated freedom—it’s just redefined it, as compliance with predictive perfection.

The Gromov era ended not in defeat, but in decay—a red colossus slowly crumbling inward, still dangerous, still proud, but facing a world it could no longer control.

Two Camps, One World on Edge

“He no longer dreamed of going west. But some nights, he still hummed ‘Let it be.’ Quiet enough that the walls wouldn’t hear.”

For the elite, life was materially comfortable, ideologically insulated, and haunted by the need to suppress dissent constantly. For the dissenter, life was a careful dance between quiet resistance and survival.

“We will not privatize socialism. We will militarize it.” —Gromov, 1993