Mixing nostalgia and kitsch with ruthless futurism, military venture capitalists make a fetish of technology in order to produce and maintain an ‘idiotic’ perspective on social life. ‚Idiot‘ in Ancient Greek refers to a pre-pubescent lack of public mindedness. In the era of Artificial Intelligence, life is tragically sliding into Artificial Idiocy. This trajectory is proving lucrative to big tech investors whose portfolios depend on the collapse of prior models for administering war.