“The future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism — the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can ignore the terrible arc of the political in our world.”

He is quite fatalistic even: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Fun fact, the official slogan of the European Union is “united in diversity,” which is of course an oxymoron. It should be corrected to “divide et impera”.

Now as a tradition-minded Briton and Englishman of the upper class, Churchill also knew that his country was a part of European civilization and took pride in it, but that is a distinction the Euroclass cannot seem to understand at all.

Note that reference to Europe’s ‘tranquil sway’. Churchill said all that at a time when, even in ruins, Europe still had a large position in the world and in which its overawing rivals were both [troublesome] offshoots of European civilization. I doubt he envisioned a Chinese hegemony, the current troubles of Islam, the demographic waves therefrom, the population of Africa, or the demographic collapse of Europe.