Incredibly powerful summary of a dismal state of affairs. How did it come to that? I feel we are massivelly overrating the level of governance, competence and

Incredibly powerful summary of a dismal state of affairs. How did it come to that? I feel we are massivelly overrating the level of governance, competence and ability to manage our overall "success" as modern societies This was already quite evident with the financial crisis and came down as a hammer with the pandemic crisis and the ultimate dead-end of the climate crisis. The denerate, dystopic, digital universe we have evolved into is not perceived as a systemic crisis. Massive data breaches are normalized. The obvious manipulation and influence of political processess the world over are shrugged off. The feudalization of economic life is portrayed as desirable "disruption". But it is really a slow moving car crash and there is no indication we have mechanisms to steer away from the deterministic outcome. Ironically, it is almost certain that better governance would have to be based on suitable digital tools and networks. There is an alternate Philip K. Dick universe out there but we need some magic quantum tunnel to get to it.