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I’ve studied the ‘weirdos’ Dominic Cummings is talking about – I’m not sure he really understands who they are
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- Authors
- Anna McFarlane
- Published
- Jan 8 2020
- Word count
- 932 words
This is a cool article, though I don't know who Dominic Cummings is and I've never read William Gibson, so I don't have much more to contribute than that I enjoyed reading it and agree with its main premise as I understand it. I've also been wanting to read Gibson for a while now, and this article reminded me of that.
Dom Cummings is the power behind Boris Johnson's throne. He's a skilled and utterly ruthless media manager/manipulator and the dude is shady as fuck. He's also one of the main players who made brexit happen (in no small part by hiring the services of one Cambridge Analytica)
In my opinion he should be, as you might have by now surmised, one of the first against the wall should the revolution come.
Appreciations for the Guide reference :) and thanks for the explainer! He sounds like a British Bannon or Miller (just realized both of those are named Steven .. hmmm).
I don't think he's a fascist/white supremacist. I also get the impression he's rather smarter than Bannon, which is one reason he's so scary. I can handle dumb bad guys, but smart bad guys are much more worrying.
But yeah, certainly similar ballpark to those guys.
I can personally recommend Neuromancer, it's not terribly long and despite being the "grandfather of cyberpunk" and written in 1984 it holds up pretty well even today.
And after that you should read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Thanks for the recommendations! These are going on my list :)