Comments on: A digital leviathan that wields power through opaque algorithms and the manipulation of digital swarms https://www.isegoria.net/2023/05/a-digital-leviathan-that-wields-power-through-opaque-algorithms-and-the-manipulation-of-digital-swarms/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2023/05/a-digital-leviathan-that-wields-power-through-opaque-algorithms-and-the-manipulation-of-digital-swarms/comment-page-1/#comment-3606945 Bruce Fri, 19 May 2023 16:48:06 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50021#comment-3606945 The Democratic Party has monopolized the bureaucracies since the 1930′s, but defending the Clintons finally broke the pretend nonpartisanship. So, endless corruption, incompetent patronage hires, decisions made by moral panics.

]]> By: Crosbie https://www.isegoria.net/2023/05/a-digital-leviathan-that-wields-power-through-opaque-algorithms-and-the-manipulation-of-digital-swarms/comment-page-1/#comment-3606938 Crosbie Fri, 19 May 2023 14:28:45 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50021#comment-3606938 “A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals”

Did that ever really exist as more than an aspiration? A worthy aspiration, perhaps, but one more honored in the breach than the observance. Real societies are organized as hierarchies of cliques. As the rule of law collapses, that social reality just becomes more visible.

]]> By: Phileas Frogg https://www.isegoria.net/2023/05/a-digital-leviathan-that-wields-power-through-opaque-algorithms-and-the-manipulation-of-digital-swarms/comment-page-1/#comment-3606929 Phileas Frogg Fri, 19 May 2023 12:51:21 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50021#comment-3606929 Samuel T. Francis and James Burnham correctly described this state already, the Managerial State, or, as the author of this excerpts correctly identities it, Leviathan.

Leviathan just happens to have new toys.

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