Kafkaesque bureaucracy from both inside and outside. A vast coordination-failure surface binding the helpless to the unable-to-help. Regret-only API. No redressal or reversal. One dystopian asymptote that’s within adjacent possible reach.
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We’re all increasingly bound by technosocial contracts with too-big-to-fail/too-big-to-work systems that even insiders can’t grok or govern or destroy, and comfort ourselves with the fiction that insiders have agency but choose not to help.
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Are you familiar w/ Jacques Ellul?https://twitter.com/ryanpflynn/status/1218268454374932480 …
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You’re the second person to mention him today. But no, I’m not. What’s the link here? Though I’ve seen the name somewhere before
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Link's to one of his papers, which is a summary of his most famous book, "The Technological Society." He was.. quite prophetic, and feels like we missed most of what he was saying.
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You’re the second person to say that to me today as well. Weird serendipity
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