Counterpoint: these masters of planning couldn't even supply people with a decent pair of shoes. One's ability to credit Russian apparatchiks with mystical powers appears to be in inverse proportion to contact with the society they built for themselves.https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1020377091597000704 …
I think the computer nerds are especially susceptible because this kind of thinking *actually works* when you're dealing with computer systems. There really are places where you can reliably touch one button and bring a virtual world to its knees