Manufacturing reality in the fourth industrial revolution

Climate change was the industry, appropriately one that purports to measure hot air, that first developed the techniques to turn a scintilla of supposition into a mullock heap of “truth”, but COVID has pushed the bounds of what is possible much further out.

It helped to shape not just the manufacturers, but the distributors and enablers. Once it was only Google who tweaked its searches to conform to left-wing and official fantasies, but under COVID the range of co-opted search engines grew, and the control spread to social media as well.

I don’t think this fourth revolution can last, because I think reality is “real” and diverging from it is catastrophic in the long run, but along with JM Keynes, in the long run I may be dead.

Our current political ruling class is heavily invested in it on both sides. In the meantime, there is honour and cause in redefining one word at least - “Luddism” - and taking analytical sledge hammers to the wheels and cogs of the BS industry. It was the wrong thing for Ned Ludd to take on the first Industrial Revolution but it’s a sacred duty to take on the fourth.