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God, State, Network | The Network State

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The collision between the top-down and bottom-up views of history is a collision of Leviathans.

God, State, Network | Network State God, State, Network The collision between the top-down and bottom-up views of history, between history as written by the winners and history as written to the ledger, between political power and technological truth...that encounter is a collision of Leviathans. To understand this, imagine two schoolboys fighting on a playground. It's not long before one of them says "my dad can beat up your dad!" There's profundity in this banality. Even at a very young age, a child believes he can appeal to a higher power, a Leviathan, a powerful man who can sweep the field

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