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The issue is more that corporations rather than governments themselves are the ones controlling the masses. It’s closest to a fascist dystopia through its conte

• diydsp 8y ago
  While corporatocracy is a grave ill, it is not moreso than the bigger picture present in the article, which is that the nature of reality is bending in a PKDish fashion. Reality and the unreal are infecting each other. This is a Baudrillardian simulacrum. It's not even proper to say it's constrained to fascism as the unreality springs from non-authoritarian sources like flat-earth memes, wikipedia wars and distraction leading to an amnesia of how to actually live properly and we're doing to ourselves. FTA: Dick believed that we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.” FTA: Most notoriously, the current U.S. president recently retweeted a flattering message that appears to have come from a bot densely connected to a network of other bots, which some believe to be controlled by the Russian government and used for propaganda purposes.