Here we are, 20 years into the distant future, and the newspaper of record now includes musical opinion pieces. Don’t get me wrong, I love Weird Al, but I’m sure he’d agree that a world where he’s writing songs for the Times is a world that’s broken.
It would be comforting to imagine this is the fault of the Illuminati. But the truth is our society is the collective outcome of all of our actions. There are constraints keeping us away from Utopia (limited time and resources, path dependence, etc.), but within the bounds of those constraints we get the outcome that we want. And apparently the outcome we want (i.e. want enough that we’re willing to work for it) is a dumpster fire.
Get your shit together humanity. It doesn’t have to be this bad. But it’s not going to get better if we keep rage tweeting about how awful it is how the other side keeps rage tweeting.
Notes On Liberty 
To be clear, I’m not absolving myself of any blame. Humans giving humans power over humans is just an inherently fraught idea.
Absolutely, if blame is the proper terma: Is not societal reorganization imposed by technological progress? And does not each of those advance in something of a sine wave, each reflecting off the other? In a system that for humans, is replete with noise?