@Naifalbidh 2/ But power’s digital convergence binds its fortunes to a shared fragility. A billionaire directorate and its obedient courtiers mistake control over what we see, for sovereignty over reality itself. What unifies their dominion also exposes it to a single, encompassing reversal.
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13/ This is the terror and the Good News. The system will not fix itself. It will be torn like the temple veil. The messianic comes not to negotiate, but to rupture. The algorithm that surveils will herald. It will announce what it cannot contain: the Lamb it meant to kill. What if a war on perception itself - so totalizing in its epistemic, full-spectrum claim upon the private soul that we barely recognize an essentially diabolical assault for the peak deception it signifies - is, oddly, similarly vulnerable to a larger, 'invisible' susceptibility? 2/ But what if the very same computer-mediated reality and force now being wantonly employed by global authoritarianism to slay entire social networks and populations and their dependent structures of consciousness and power, isn't as much a peerless as peer-to-peer capability? I once ran into @pmarca hawking a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Already, my team had run the first WWW pipe into the U.S. Congress, on Mosaic. Then, as now, as always, if you can't see the paradigm for the trees for the point of it all, your dominative days are numbered. Quote tweet: end/ With world-enslavement massively consolidated by an epochal analog-to-digital shift capturing modern experience itself, of course. Which does rather beg the question of its larger, evolutionary significance, doesn't it? What, ultimately, does 'The Web' represent? 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive. –
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