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229 - Paul Kingsnorth - Civilization and Control

The Symbolic World

CHAPTER

The Secret Deal With Intelligence

We're there to give intelligence to this thing. We're there to make g intelligent, because machines don't have intelligence on their own. Intelligence is what we're being farmed for. So it's taking the highest aspect of humanity and then somehow making it into a resource. It's like creating an egregor, isn't it? In silican valley, there's a lot of guods whoa very conscious of this. And this is their religious wold frew. I talk often about this book called what technology wants, by kevin kelly. If you want to know how these guys are thinking, you should read that book. Technology is not neutral. It has a

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