The Long 18th Century

  The French Revolution (1798-99)  is considered the penultimate event of the Long 18th Century , but why should we be interested in the Ancien Regime ? Charles Bastille ( here ) argues that the Trump Regimes , rather than being considered Fascist , should be considered Techno-Feuda l and the French Revolution was the end of Feudalism in France. In other words, we are already living in a TechnoFeudal society and it is heading for a bloody revolution. ChatGPT analyzes the TechnoFeudal System (graphic above)*** as one in which a weak (or weakened) State becomes dependent on platforms of the Tech Lords ( Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft) granting them weak regulation and sovereignty over their vassals and serfs . TechnoFeudal rent (fees, subscriptions, data extraction and gatekeeping) replaces profit as a way for Tech Lords to extract surplus . Taking the Feudal Hierarchy one step further than ChatGPT, the Tech Lords promise to replace Government Bureaucracies with auto...

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