The Duke of Fall 
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116206778697936722
It's almost like the *entire cyberpunk subgenre* of literary work has been warning us about this for over half a century, but no one "thought it would get that bad."
Baroness Winter@valthonis The "it can't happen here" has been strong for a long, long time. Funny how cyberpunk dystopia and American christofascism are the watchwords of the day.
@BaronessWinter I should have realized how screwed we were when Zuckerberg said aloud that he wanted to build "the metaverse," like from Snow Crash.
Dude literally pointed at the cautionary tale and saw an aspirational goal.
doboprobodyne@valthonis I'd submit that it's technically an old world order. I think the system will probably oscillate between the two forms of order at different rates in different territories, albeit over timescales longer than human lifespan. I believe control systems engineers and physiologists call it "hunting behaviour". The tricky thing is the wars that come as one entity wants to wrest power from another. #systemsArchitecture #cybernetics #controlTheory #rayDalio