To the Destruction of the World Wide Web

Astronaut Dave Bowman shuts down or “kills” rogue AI/supercomputer Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history. — the NY Times, May 26, 2026

Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history.

— the NY Times, May 26, 2026

One could not invent a more diabolical conspiracy for mass mind control than the one playing out openly, daily, everywhere there is a personal computer or screen-phone and a signal connecting users to the digital matrix. The conspiracy is all-encompassing, world-girdling.

It is where this machine envelops the human brain, in the moment of contact between the ape and the screen, that interests me. Fascinating is the ape’s repetitive stroking of the device, head bent as in prayer – the demented stillness of an animal caught in the tractor beam of the controllers who operate the matrix. Absorption into the system of control has nothing to do with the content it offers. The whirligigs of color and lights, the swirl of music, the chatter of talking heads: all irrelevant, so long as the device is gripped, the screen glows, the user stares and is stilled, and control is maintained through entertainment and entrainment.

By now, deep into the age of digital megamachine authoritarianism, as inhuman-scale monopolies run by oligarchs manipulate what we know and think and how we govern, it should be clear to all that the liberation of humankind from this soft tyranny requires not only the toppling of the oligarchs but the take-down and annihilation of the World Wide Web that has served their purposes for too long. The Web, spun by a cabal of techno-fascists, has already ensnared billions in mental slavery – go to any continent and watch the apes of all colors a-stroking. Ever expanding under the direction of the techno-fascists, the Web now seeks to trap the few remaining souls on Earth yet beyond its ambit. To paraphrase Diderot (or is it Montaigne? Voltaire?), the world will not be free until the last tech bro is strangled with the entrails of the last computer programmer.

The cynical reader remarks immediately on the hypocrisy of issuing this call for war against the digital order using the structures of the digital order. I respond with the example of the French Resistance and partisan guerillas everywhere in Nazi-occupied Europe, who fought their oppressors using weapons captured from enemy ranks. It is a rational use of resources to exploit digital platforms for the annihilation of the digital.

A parallel is white male privilege. As a white Euro-American male, I enjoy immensely the opportunity my position affords to undermine, erode, destabilize, demoralize, sabotage, or directly attack the armatures of the control system. The badge of white maleness is akin to a security clearance to blow up bombers on the........

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