The neoliberal world order as we know it is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. But celebrations of its downfall are muted by the bleak reality of the world that is rising to take its place. Every day, our screens are flooded with images of war, genocide, and AI slop. And we all know we’re living in dark times.

So, what does this mean for us, and how do we move forward?

https://sub.media/the-time-of-monsters/

(Reposted this because I forgot to add the image in the last post)

  • mod3@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Surveillance capitalism is also how states (and other entities) control the population in contemporary times.

    1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales;
    2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification;
    3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history;
    4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy;
    5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth;
    6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy;
    7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty;
    8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.