Seeing the most advanced technological processes now subject to what is crudely a protection racket brings to mind a quote by Debord: "Founded on obscurantism

Seeing the most advanced technological processes now subject to what is crudely a protection racket brings to mind a quote by Debord: "Founded on obscurantism and poverty, the Mafia at that time was not even able to implant itself in Northern Italy. It seemed condemned to vanish before the modern State. It was a form of organized crime that could only prosper through the ‘protection’ of backward minorities, outside the world of the towns, where the laws of the bourgeoisie and the control of a rational police force could not penetrate. The defensive tactics of the Mafia could only suppress witnesses, neutralize the police and judiciary, and install as ruler in its sphere of activity the secret that is necessary to it. Subsequently it found a new field in the new obscurantism of the society of the diffuse spectacular, then in its integrated form: with the total victory of the secret, the general resignation of citizens, the complete loss of logic, and universal cowardice, all the favorable conditions were united for it to become a modern and offensive power" https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-debord-comments-on-the-society-of-the-spectacle https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-debord-comments-...