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>>12929501
>To me, the 20th and 21st (thus far) centuries have been characterized by Rule by Intelligence Agency.
this is a great characterization. the ways in which we fall in love with ideological security apparatuses is a fascinating human phenomenon, especially when we start pretending as if these things don't always come back to devour themselves in the end.

back in the Xenosystems days Land used to tweet about political polarization in the intelligence communities as being a huge problem. i think he was right about that. the future is going to be very closely surveilled, and encrypted, and hacked, and patched, and updated and identified as X-Compliant in about thirty million different ways. when the domain of computer programming goes all the way over and links up with psychology at the level of mass control - well, i say this like it isn't already happening...