It occurs to me that what the elites REALLY want is a world where their failures of vision and moral courage and humanity are papered over, disappeared, vani shed. Where everyone capable of good is arrested, tortured, and killed or made to surrender their individuality.
The Fasces is in-dividual, is it not? Indivisible? A symbol of all being combined by force into one?
I will relate a further, related stipulation: technology consists in creating things we can see. Art, in causing us to feel, and the more keenly, more nuanced, the more unique, the better.
Trchnology consists in doing the same thing a billion times a second perfectly; art in doing one thing slowly and imperfectly.
Drawing on many possible continuums, I would place technology and story telling on opposite ends of the continuum. We FEED on stories, on media, do we not? But Ross on Friends does not see us, and he can be replicated perfectly a billion times a second, can he not? He may exist in equal perfection 100,000 years from now.
As I have commented Socrates refused to be “recorded”. He considered even the written word to already be a lie, and he wanted no part—even a second hand part—in any lying.
Fascism and trchnology go together. The goal is replication and perfection, not being openly and confusedly human. Weak and fearful people cannot tolerate that condition.
Im not sure where I am going with all this, but I wanted to say it. This is an example of an imperfect, unclear, iterative act.