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Then it has done what it was designed to do.Is anyone exhausted at this point? I think it's making me drift away from politics for good because it just seems like I have to endure ...
Consider it this way:
You control a country. It's pretty easy to do, you've got it down to a nice routine of bread and circuses with the odd snap of the whip to keep the people in line. Then suddenly, a new tool appears that lets everyone find out pretty much anything they want. The thing spreads fast, driven in equal parts by greed, porn, and idealism (don't laugh, it was a thing back then).
What do you do? Ban it - forget it, it's everywhere now. Regulate it - you can try, but laws go to the highest bidder, this thing is really fucking profitable and since it's worldwide, there's always going to be holes. So you overload it - not the actual information systems, but the fucking users. Drown the fuckers in soup. Force them to use it, make it easy for them! So easy that they can't think, just react.
And then you have control again.
You control a country. It's pretty easy to do, you've got it down to a nice routine of bread and circuses with the odd snap of the whip to keep the people in line. Then suddenly, a new tool appears that lets everyone find out pretty much anything they want. The thing spreads fast, driven in equal parts by greed, porn, and idealism (don't laugh, it was a thing back then).
What do you do? Ban it - forget it, it's everywhere now. Regulate it - you can try, but laws go to the highest bidder, this thing is really fucking profitable and since it's worldwide, there's always going to be holes. So you overload it - not the actual information systems, but the fucking users. Drown the fuckers in soup. Force them to use it, make it easy for them! So easy that they can't think, just react.
And then you have control again.
Same thing happened (although at a slower pace) when printing presses were developed. Do you really think the push for almost universal literacy during the 1800s was benevolent?