Yuval Harari: Free Information Is Dangerous


What a load of twaddle.


I am reminded when I get to this throwaway line of his, "Even though neuroscience shows us that there is no such thing as free will, in practical terms it made sense because nobody could understand and manipulate your innermost feelings", these are people fishing under the precepts of scientism, for an excuse to commit the crimes they have the will but not yet the courage to undertake.


The only thing that bother the Left about "fake news" is, the fakeness other their narrative is so apparent it can no longer be concealed by a monolithic but relatively ever more shrill, incapable -- and distressingly insane -- leftstream media.

        Why is liberalism under particular threat from big data?  ...Interviewer

        Liberalism is based on the assumption that you have privileged access to  your own inner world of feelings and thoughts and choices, and nobody outside you can really understand you.  ...Harari

            Good Lord "Liberalism", meaning the current would-be globalists set of dirigistes, is dependent on the plausibility that it is possible to know enough, to justifiably order other people's lives without their affirmative consent, but instead by the force majeur of a relatively omnipotent state.  It is potentiated by Big Data, not threatened by it at all.

            Actual liberalism, classical liberalism, is the diminution of the state to the greatest extent tolerable to a controlling fraction of the population, such that that diminished state is maintained only by the force tolerable to what fraction objects to it.  The great goal of liberty, is that outside of crimes held to be  malum in se to that first fraction, is that society become otherwise ungovernable.