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cybernetics were “planned as ultimate control”
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AI makes this even more feasible. in french philosophical terms: it makes the future impossible by perfectly and totally computing/surveilling
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covid supercharged digitization, paving the way for the above. in covid, people will flee to internet protocols, like romans fled to the church.
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the church’s hegemony was broken by the printing-press and the enlightenment
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the cypherpunks were early to the idea that cryptography and math could provide systems that are stronger than human law
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adding blockchains in, you have a system that truly provides an alternative - to both american empire and silicon valley
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this power needs to be put into the hands of masses of individuals - breaking the silicon valley / american hegemony similar to the church’s.