“I Was There” Inside Tech Elite’s Plan to Abandon Humanity | Douglas Rushkoff
He traces the origins of modern capitalism, hourly wages, and reductive science to the late Middle Ages, arguing these systems were designed to control labor and nature.summaryScientism and Control: Francis Bacon's philosophy of taking nature 'by the forelock' established a reductive, materialist view of science that seeks to control and quantify everything. This mindset excludes anything thattakeaway“Empirical science will let us take nature by the forelock, hold her down, and submit her to our will... It's not about life, it's about reduction... Anything that you can weigh and measure exists. If you can't do you haquote














