The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab

“power is obscured for a different reason. They are all examples of how our lives can be influenced in ways that are now difficult for us to even notice, let alone challenge. Power that isn’t transparent is a form of power that isn’t accountable. Regulation is difficult to apply. The law is often absent. Professional standards are often silent and public understanding is dropping too far behind. Hidden power isn’t controlled by any of these external means. While power itself isn’t evil, hidden forms of power have the greatest capacity to be used in abusive ways. “

“politics is trapped in the twin clutches of apathy and polarisation. It struggles to respond to citizens, to convince them that it is expressing their will.”

“newspapers relized that their readers were not their consumers; they were their product”

“governance is one of the slowest technoloiges to advance because there aren’t blank slates where people can try out new political systems”

“clicks are king, the truth is an irrelevance, the originator of the story is forgotten”

“from the way they build their offices, to how they speak about themselves, their brand and mottos, the big technology companies have spent a fortune to not appear like large unfeeling corporates, and it’s enormously damaging and embarrassing to them when their own workers say they are. Silicon Valley Rising was using old-school labour organization tactics, f2f conversion in a warehouse, the power of solidarity and collective action to inspire the tech industry to do better. It’s that basic, believing you can do something. Progress or not however both M & G think it’s reaching a crisis point. From me, my perspective, looking at me from under the rim of his cap, I’m angry every single day, man, yeah, I just don’t show it. we know we can burn this motherfucker down…I’m not saying that’s something we’ll do. "