Some villainous words. I think the view of technology as neutral often
comes from the colloquial, merely instrumental understanding of the word.
Techne as the means to a human end. As political technologists we might try
to dig deeper and attach to more philosophical explanations. Heidegger
offers that technology is a form of poetic world revealing. A reality
enframing. Gestell.

So we can understand Palantir technologies as enframing, but a modern one
of instrumental rationality that serves those forces trying to exert
internal and external control over man and nature. Totalitarian
calculability. Anomalies at mass scale. Or: Find the Snowden.

I spent a weekend at a ranch in the American West with these Palantir boys
who all professed civil libertarianism. But their rationalizations are
those you've heard before, nervous and guilty. We all knew the score.
On May 31, 2014 12:35 AM, "Kristov Atlas" <author@???>
wrote:

> On 05/31/2014 01:11 AM, Josh Walker wrote:
> > I have no evidence that the CIA is exclusively evil
>
> I'm sorry to hear that. I really do think we need moral clarity in
> spreading freedom. "This system is more efficient" is a weak form of
> persuasion since so many are financially and emotionally invested in the
> current system.
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