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229 - Paul Kingsnorth - Civilization and Control

The Symbolic World

CHAPTER

The System Is Creating Itself Through Our Desire to Participate in It

"The starlink is very close to skynet. It's basically taking the same words and just changing them a little adcoice, ta oe a wit sky net," he says. "I don't know what's going on with you on musk, he's a very strange character." The system itself seems to be kind of creating itself through our desire to participate in it and our desire to not be on the margins of it".

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