As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the merging of tech and the state. He cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent: a model that is now to be applied to virtually every lever of power. While Karp may not know it, this idea has deep roots in American political culture.
TechnARCHY, not -ocracy: it’s feudalism, just by tech-elite, not everybody-voting-as-equals which the -ocracy suffix would imply…
Feudalism by a slightly-different standard, & technologically-enforced class/caste system: unbreakable concentration-of-rights-authorities-wealths-and-privileges to the owners/rulers.
Yeah, it’s inevitable SO LONG AS government is by & for “the owners”, as that Aussie bizman called the economic-rulers of the world…
shrug
It’s theoretically possible for government to be evidence-based, objective, for the good of the world, etc, but that would take far more spine than the ideologies would permit, far more than the political selects-for-DarkTriad process would permit.
Human-narcissism being the relentless underlying mover-&-shaker of the whole thing.
The change required is more fundamental… probably more-fundamental than humankind would allow.
TechnARCHY, not -ocracy: it’s feudalism, just by tech-elite, not everybody-voting-as-equals which the -ocracy suffix would imply…
Feudalism by a slightly-different standard, & technologically-enforced class/caste system: unbreakable concentration-of-rights-authorities-wealths-and-privileges to the owners/rulers.
Yeah, it’s inevitable SO LONG AS government is by & for “the owners”, as that Aussie bizman called the economic-rulers of the world…
shrug
It’s theoretically possible for government to be evidence-based, objective, for the good of the world, etc, but that would take far more spine than the ideologies would permit, far more than the political selects-for-DarkTriad process would permit.
Human-narcissism being the relentless underlying mover-&-shaker of the whole thing.
The change required is more fundamental… probably more-fundamental than humankind would allow.
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