Flaming Pie

[Martin Eden]

28. The technologies worry me. Billionaire techbros have sided with The Felon

Not because they like him, but because he makes them even richer and they might ultimately gain real power in an authoritarian state which depends on AI & deep fakes to control an expanding media sphere that displaces honest journalism with a manufactured reality that will shrink the resistance and pacify the masses.

What was the REAL goal of DOGE? It didn't save the government much money, if any at all. But it did wreck government agencies which were an institutional barrier to executive power. Perhaps more importantly, Musk’s hackers siezed data bases which had been protected and siloed, obtaining personal data on nearly all Americans. That kind of information wielded by tech billionaires allied with a fascist regime provides an edge that historical empires did not have.

The point at which an Orwellian dystopia can be prevented might be close at hand. The Felon is demented and incompetent, but the powers behind him are not.

I hope I'm overstating this frightening scenario, and the free world has enough resilience to overcome this 21st century authoritarianism. If the future is still in our hands, we better not let it slip away.