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"Earlier this month, multibillion-dollar US tech company Palantir posted on X a
summary of its chief executive Alex Karp’s recent book, the portentously titled
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the
West.
The book and the post offer a kind of manifesto, making sweeping claims about a
hierarchy of civilisations, the rejection of pluralism, Silicon Valley’s moral
obligation to US military power, the necessity of AI-powered weapons, and the
case for compulsory military service.
The manifesto has met widespread criticism. Some commentators have compared the
rhetoric to the monologue of a comic-book villain: grand, moralising, tinged
with a sense of historical destiny.
But the manifesto is more than just corporate posturing: it’s helping to
construct a new geopolitical reality and normalise a worldview that
concentrates power beyond democratic accountability."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
