The world is getting an illuminating glimpse into the power wielded by Facebook, Amazon and social media which can blank out Australia, remake the retail landscape of India. They’ve watched in breathless wonder as tens of thousands of nursing home deaths were covered up by the official news. Some have stood awestruck as the Western medical bureaucracy shut down whole economies and entire continents.
It is a fearsome display of institutional pow-ah that needs to be experienced to be appreciated. Imagine such a force operating in unison to affect an election and only just winning. It’s like watching titanic gravitational forces at play and understanding for the first time the true scale of events.
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