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Political Power and Technological Truth | The Network State
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Why does power care about the past? Because the morality of society is derived from its history.
Political Power and Technological Truth | Network State Political Power and Technological Truth In the top-down view, history is written by the winners. It is about political power triumphing over technological truth. Why does power care about the past? Because the morality of society is derived from its history. When the Chinese talk about Western imperialism, they aren't just talking about some forgettable dust-up in the South China Sea, but how that relates to generations of colonialism and oppression, to the Eight Nations Alliance and the Opium Wars and so on. And when you see someone deno
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