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But that was sixteen years ago, at the time I’m writing, and since then freedom has come into the spotlight again. We find ourselves surveilled and managed to an extraordinary degree, farmed for our personal data, fed consumer goods but discouraged from speaking our minds or doing anything too disruptive in the world, and regularly reminded that ra

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The belief that human behaviour can be perfectly modelled, predicted and controlled entrains as a consequence the collapse of equitable relations between individuals and trust in institutions, and the substitution of algorithmic certainty for any semblance of participatory, democratic society. There is no appeal to collective, contestable decision-

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Nietzsche, comprenant que l’existence est par nature confuse et mystérieuse, croit que les individus ne sont pas psychiquement équipés pour expliquer leur signification cosmique. Pour lui, la recrudescence des religions idéologiques déclenchée par les Lumières (démocratie, nationalisme, communisme, socialisme, colonialisme, etc.) n’est qu’un moyen

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Along these lines, one recalls, too, Arendt’s warning in the prologue to The Human Condition: “The future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it w... See more

The strivings of individuals to better themselves were, from the outset, perverted by a superhumanly evil mechanism that turned their efforts to exactly the opposite end: to thwart all attempts at improvement; to keep sentient beings locked in a crude, suffering state for eternity. Only the Enlightenment, hundreds of thousands of years later, and a

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As I discussed previously, technocracy was built on the concept of nonideological solutions for government. Yet technocracy has now developed into an ideology in itself. Its vision of the world is that it is understandable and can be perfected by those who have the knowledge to understand and manipulate the world. And it follows from this assumptio

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As the influence of Hayek and Friedman predicts, the dominant theme of this literature was “the coercive nature of administrative government” and the systematic conflation of industry regulation with “tyranny” and “authoritarianism.” According to this worldview, all regulation is burdensome, and bureaucracy must be repudiated as a form of human dom

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