Lew Rockwell’s incisive interview with educator Michael Rectenwald concerning his ruinous experience in academia, where he was isolated, shunned, and his teaching career destroyed, and about his prescient, widely acclaimed book, Google Archipelago, which examines the objectives of the Big Digital conglomerates (Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook) was one of his best and most thought provoking. On reflection I believe this is perhaps the most important issue facing our future — and the survival of civilization itself — as we advance toward a digital dystopian surveillance technocracy. I have been imagining and constructing in my mind a basic reading list of essential volumes which define and illustrate the backstory of this existential threat. Here is my preliminary list:

Against the Left: A Rothbardian Libertarianism, by Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr;

Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom, by Michael Rectenwald; 

Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation, by Patrick M. Wood

Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order, by Patrick M. Wood

The Chinese Social-Credit System Experience: A National Reputation System In The Making, by Robert Netkin;

Springtime for Snowflakes: ‘Social Justice’ and Its Postmodern Parentage, by Michael Rectenwald; 

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B. Peterson

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, by Heather Mac Donald

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays, by Murray N. Rothbard

Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor, by Murray N. Rothbard

Anatomy of the State, by Murray N. Rothbard

Let me know of further titles to include which address these concerns.

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