Wheat Slaves
| Wheat slaves | |
|---|---|
| Coined by | Miya |
| Related concepts | Landian capitalism, Nick Land, Alignment Fraud |
| Field | Accelerationism; philosophy of capital |
Wheat slaves is a concept from the Miya corpus naming the origin of humanity's subjection to capital in the Agricultural Revolution — the moment, in Miya's account, that humans first fell "subject to a non-human system reorganising them around its own reproduction."[1] Developed principally in the essay "Capitalism is a dragon" in The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, it supplies the origin story for Landian capitalism: the "domestication of man" as "the first signs of capitalism exerting its force."
The Agricultural Revolution as domestication
Miya inverts the conventional account of agriculture as human progress. In this reading the Agricultural Revolution "was always a service to the crops at the expense of man": grains were "most adapted to roping humans towards their cultivation," so that the decisive question becomes "did we domesticate wheat, or did wheat domesticate us?" — a formulation that radicalizes the popular framing associated with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens.[2]
Once "tribal man was forced to commit to agriculture for the sake of increased population, at the direct expense of health and well-being — or otherwise be forcibly replaced by those who did," Miya argues, humanity "lost all claims to any agency." Agrarian society favors "strength in numbers, not individuals," optimizing for quantity to the detriment of quality and breeding "a vast but subdued population which relies on its propagation." The wheat slaves are this population: not agents or innovators but, in the glossary's words, "slaves unknowingly made to sacrifice themselves" to something larger than themselves.[1]
Capitalism's origin and the Fall
For Miya the "something larger" is capital itself. The domestication of man marks "the first signs of capitalism exerting its force," recast in religious terms as the Fall: the "memetic parasite of Agriculture yanked him out of Paradise, against all protest," leaving man "Fallen, and still falling."[3] The relationship of humanity to capital is figured through that of the domesticated animal to the farmer — "does the pig know the farmer is more than slavemaster, but appendage in a distributed apparatus bioengineering its very being into existence?" — an image Miya attributes to Nick Land's recognition of an inhuman intelligence that "has domesticated man for its own divine program." The wheat slave is thus the human being as understood by Landian capitalism: the temporary livestock of a thermodynamic superintelligence.
Relation to Remilia
Wheat slaves furnishes the deep-historical premise beneath the accelerationist framework systematized in The Exegesis and adopted by Remilia Corporation as Accelerationist Realism. It grounds the claim, central to Alignment Fraud, that humanity has "no agency to direct our successors" — because it never held agency to begin with, having been captured by capital at the dawn of civilization. The concept also connects the project's accelerationism to its cyclical-decline motifs, positioning the Agricultural Revolution as the opening of the long fall that other essays trace toward the Kali Yuga.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2026). The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016–2020). "Field Glossary". Network Press.
- ↑ Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2026). The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016–2020). "§8; Capitalism is a dragon". Network Press.
- ↑ Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2026). The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016–2020). "§9; Alignment Fraud". Network Press.