@mehdirhasan @Byoussef Well, yes. The technium and state fused as a single stack. The Machine is far larger than North America, mind you. It's ubiquitous, indeed constitutive to techno-modernity itself—a total machine of control, exploitation and erasure, enthroned as progress, crowning itself destiny.
@samfbiddle Thank you, Sam. McLuhan saw it, of course: “The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.” It's World War III, not as we anticipated it, but exactly as he prophesized.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1875703515613724902 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @MrEwanMorrison And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. A World War, suddenly centered upon perception itself. t.co/PhCKRpAegR
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