Paul Kingsnorth, "Huxley and the Machine"

"The 2020s are pushing us, fast and furious, into a new time. We can all sense the craziness in the air, the feeling of our moorings being cut one by one. It feels hard sometimes just to stay upright as we live through what feels like a threefold earthquake: a global ecological breakdown; the cultural disintegration of the West; and the rise of networked technologies of control and surveillance which daily have us tighter in their grip. The powers of the world seem to be merging: corporate power, state power, institutional power, ideological power, the power of the oligarchs who built and control the Internet, the power of the network itself. Some days it can feel as if we are living inside the plot of a piece of twentieth century dystopian sci-fi. The twist is that this time Agent Smith is the hero, while Neo has been dismissed as a far-right conspiracy theorist," said Paul Kingsnorth [1] in his brilliant speech in the international conference on May 24th in Tallinn [2].
Here's Paul's speech in its entirety.
With best wishes,
H.
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[1] • Paul Kingsnorth "Scien...
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