Against the Machine

A machine made of human parts. This is what Mumford called the ‘megamachine’: an entire society ordered from the top down, justified by a mythos employed by its leaders and driven by a desire for ‘order, power, predictability and above all, control’.
Paul Kingsnorth • Against the Machine
The Machine is, rather, a tendency within us, made concrete by power and circumstance, which coalesces in a huge agglomeration of power, control and ambition. The Machine manifests today as an intersection of money power, state power and increasingly coercive and manipulative technologies, which constitute an ongoing war against roots and against
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