What is Concept Country?

Concept Country is a living corpus of parody which is intended to spread one central idea: Network States are inherently monarchist systems, and should not exist.

Something cool slouches towards my keyboard. It's me, the collective voice of Concept. Storm clouds mumble obscure memes for the extremely online. A new headache sputters to life in the data centers, filling your feeds with people trying to reverse engineer how to make friends by discussing Bayesian priors. Robber barons loot even the most indestructible of dadaist collectives, laying waste to groupchat after groupchat. A Cambrian explosion of mental illness descends on the public like a plague. Not my problem!

The old world shudders under impossible weights.

Do you hold your nose? Jack into infinite jest in the gooncave? Summon necromancers for your favored ideology?

Concept offers, instead: a shattered glass quilt. A more legible, enjoyable, guilt-free presence.

Some use the term "network state" to refer to the endgame of techno-oligarchy — a feudal billionaire utopia to be built in the rubble of the postwar order.

Well, that's exactly what those people want, because it's easier to stop giving a shit about society if you think you can cheerlead your way into escaping it entirely.

At its core, a "network state" (or "network society") is really dumb. It's based on a bunch of lofty assumptions that mostly serve as abstractions for meaning which we already have: conversations with friends, loving your homies, and sharing bread next to a fire. And as a decentralized medium, the internet lends itself more comfortably to participatory and open forms of government — most of which have become completely embarrassing or blown up the world.

Concept Country is a mixed media collective dedicated to satire and fun from a wide variety of perspectives.

Concept Country has a right to exist.