Technik and totalitarian global dictatorship
Forty-five years ago, dissident French thinker Jacques Ellul wrote about all the contradictions and difficulties involved in maintaining what he called the “scientific-state-techno-economical complex”. Looking ahead, he wondered out loud how it could ever be kept functioning and expanding in the future. He concluded, with foresight which seems uncanny in the 2020s: “In truth, there … Continue reading Technik and totalitarian global dictatorship