The Network is becoming the next Leviathan after God and the State, because on key dimensions it is growing more powerful and more just than the State.

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  Technology cannot let people escape politics, because politics arises from the existence of people who disagree with each other.

  Srinivasan holds both: that the Network is becoming the next Leviathan after God and the State, and that technology cannot let anyone escape politics because politics comes from people disagreeing. A Leviathan that cannot escape politics is a state with different plumbing, which may be the point or may be the concession.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

• The Net may not produce a more complex vision of reality, because what becomes too easy becomes sloppy MCMihaly Csikszentmihalyic. 1996
• The "machine gods" metaphor shrinks rather than expands one's sense of the possible, forcing focus solely on what a godlike AI will do. HFHenry Farrell22 Sept 2026

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