Tech leaders are also business leaders and they were also vocal in the past. See Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Alva Edison.
Tech leaders and businesses leaders are publicly speaking to promote their interests and their views. They always have done it.
Going from this to a conspiracy theory where tech and capital are comploting together to subdue the world, shape it to their liking, while using a soviet style apparatus is laughable.
Also, pretending that people on the right are just recycling leftist theories (of Adorno, Rene Girard, Gramsci) is pretty funny.
I don't think uncle Ben or ole Tommy E were collecting information on everyone and using the control they gained from their business to implement advanced psychological techniques which manipulate perception en masse.
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Now this is a topic where I would have loved to see discussions - the role of technology leaders today, beyond the obvious...
Tech leaders are also business leaders and they were also vocal in the past. See Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Alva Edison.
Tech leaders and businesses leaders are publicly speaking to promote their interests and their views. They always have done it.
Going from this to a conspiracy theory where tech and capital are comploting together to subdue the world, shape it to their liking, while using a soviet style apparatus is laughable.
Also, pretending that people on the right are just recycling leftist theories (of Adorno, Rene Girard, Gramsci) is pretty funny.
I don't think uncle Ben or ole Tommy E were collecting information on everyone and using the control they gained from their business to implement advanced psychological techniques which manipulate perception en masse.
Didn't they find a bunch of skeletons buried under Benjamin Franklin's house?
It sounds like he did what he could with the technology that was available at the time.
You do not need an actual conspiracy. A lot of powerful people with the same interests pushing those interests has the same effect.