And we have developed an infrastructure highly skilled at doing that. If you want someone to buy your product, or vote for your candidate, you simply have to direct funding in that direction, and there are organizations and individuals constantly perfecting the ability to do that. The laws of the market no longer control economic activity, and the mechanisms of the ballot no longer control political activity.

We all know that this is happening, but I don't think most of us understand how incredibly effective it is, and how we are losing control of the system. Since our livelihoods depend on our corporate performance, we often find ourselves working to bring about outcomes we may personally detest. The system has a mind of its own.

This is fugue. Its the singularity. We are not helpless before the proverbial science-fiction master computer, we are enslaved to a mindless administrative machine that seeks its own welfare at our expense.