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|I find the conspiracy discussion so important that I am going to write a series of articles about it. Here is Part 2. As you might know, I don’t believe fanatical conspiracy thinking will lead us closer to adequately understanding what happens in the world. Nevertheless, the question of to what extent what currently happens in modern society, particularly the rise of totalitarianism, is driven by a grand conspiracy is legitimate. It has occupied the greatest thinkers on totalitarianism, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to Hannah Arendt. Both ultimately rejected the idea that a totalitarian system arises from a conspiracy. I will attempt to articulate my own position on this matter point by point and as clearly as possible. | |I find the conspiracy discussion so important that I am going to write a series of articles about it. Here is Part 2. As you might know, I don’t believe fanatical conspiracy thinking will lead us closer to adequately understanding what happens in the world. Nevertheless, the question of to what extent what currently happens in modern society, particularly the rise of totalitarianism, is driven by a grand conspiracy is legitimate. It has occupied the greatest thinkers on totalitarianism, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to Hannah Arendt. Both ultimately rejected the idea that a totalitarian system arises from a conspiracy. I will attempt to articulate my own position on this matter point by point and as clearly as possible. | ||
To begin with: when I reject an overall interpretation of what happens in the world in terms of conspiracies, it is not my intention to ignore the fact that a dangerous system of control is rising, where a small number of people (an ‘elite’) have the power to control almost everyone else. We are indeed at risk – if we aren’t already to some extent – of ending up in a digital gulag, with digital currencies and digital passports, where AI calculates how far each citizen can go today according to their ‘CO2 account’ and what they can or cannot eat for breakfast, what ‘chemical corrections’ are necessary for their blood values, and so on. | To begin with: when I reject an overall interpretation of what happens in the world in terms of conspiracies, it is not my intention to ignore the fact that a dangerous system of control is rising, where a small number of people (an ‘elite’) have the power to control almost everyone else. We are indeed at risk – if we aren’t already to some extent – of ending up in a digital gulag, with digital currencies and digital passports, where AI calculates how far each citizen can go today according to their ‘CO2 account’ and what they can or cannot eat for breakfast, what ‘chemical corrections’ are necessary for their blood values, and so on. | ||
In line with the pervasive reversal of every truth in modernity, the emergence of the new totalitarianism, of course, take place under the (false) flag of democracy. All in all, Aldous Huxley had it pretty much right when he foresaw the following about seventy years ago: | In line with the pervasive reversal of every truth in modernity, the emergence of the new totalitarianism, of course, take place under the (false) flag of democracy. All in all, Aldous Huxley had it pretty much right when he foresaw the following about seventy years ago: | ||
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