Algorithmic Archons: The Powers That Shape What You See
Open your phone and count the decisions you did not make. The order of the feed, the next video queued, the moment the notification arrived, the face at the top of your timeline. Every one of those choices was made for you, by systems optimizing for something that is not your flourishing. The Gnostics had a word for unseen powers that arrange human experience from behind the curtain. We have covered who the archons are in an earlier post. This one is about the machinery that has, in our lifetime, taken over their job description. ...