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The Fundamental Flaw with Technocratic Utopianism and the Rise of Parallel Networks

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats On the surface we appear to be living in dire times. Accelerating censorship, panicked pandemic lockdowns, the rush into authoritarian styles of government founded upon resentment with a strong desire for revenge – one would be naïve not to see the parallels to 1920s Russia. Yet in...