It's always good to see John Gray's writing getting attention, in my opinion he is one of the most perceptive writers out there. However, the title of this subm

It's always good to see John Gray's writing getting attention, in my opinion he is one of the most perceptive writers out there. However, the title of this submission should probably changed since the conversation is getting sidetracked. The original title of the article is "Surveillance Capitalism Vs. The Surveillance State" with the tagline "Surveillance technology is the surrogate for the communities Western capitalism has destroyed". The comment about individualism and privacy is a single sentence in the middle. The main drive of the article, as suggested in the original title, is about the convergence of both West and East in terms of mass surveillance and internet monopolies. Considering the vast gulf between their histories and cultures, surely this convergence is an interesting (and not at all inevitable) phenomenon.