Technology is before culture and politics. Without the printing press , the nation state wouldnt be possible, and without the elite-controlled mass media, the c

Technology is before culture and politics. Without the printing press , the nation state wouldnt be possible, and without the elite-controlled mass media, the centralized bureaucratic machine which monotonically increased its power concentration in the late-20th would not have been possible. The internet disrupted that, and now we have on the one hand states with a legacy of Too Much Control on people 's lives and on the other hand citizens who are disengaged and disinterested , again because of technology. Your neighborhood is dirty and full of bigots? That's OK because you live through a shiny screen anyway and you get to chat with uber-progressive friends every day. Your city looks ugly? That's OK because paradise beach weekends are only a flight away. And that's progress because it allows us to be increasingly atomized and tolerant of our different neighbors. But we 've forgotten all that legacy power which is concentrated in the hands of Leaders, and while people are distracted, bad actors are going to be taking advantage of it. Fake media and underhanded tactics are going to be rampant until we begin to remove or decentralize powers.