A book which demonstrated to me the drivers of greed and the need for some to seek power:
I read a fascinating book about corruption and how some of the high end of society in the UK functions. I recommend it to you all. It is called “Cookooland, Where the rich own the truth” by Tom Burgis. It is riveting reading. Here’s a few short sentences from the last chapter:
A free society works only when reality itself is free. When the stories by which we live are composed by the many, challenged and tested and adjusted and debated, not imposed by the few.
What we are witnessing is the privatisation of reality. The advent of generative artificial Intelligence, distributed through social media, is hastening what’s being called epistemological bankruptcy. The point at which we’ll be unable to tell whether any of the information we encounter is authentic or not.
We risk a return to feudal reality. With the words of the strong, of the rich, is gospel.
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