Notes
Short reflections, observations and updates from the EDO team.
There Is No Deep State… Only Shallow Citizens
The mythology of the deep state—this notion of an omnipotent web of unelected bureaucrats, clandestine agencies, and old-money dynasties operating behind closed doors—has become a seductive balm for a society unwilling to confront its own decay.
📘 Book Review: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor
Mayor’s Gods and Robots is a blistering reminder that our obsession with artificial intelligence, automation, and bioengineering is not the product of a rational age—but the reawakening of a mythical one.
📘 Book Review "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" by Neil Postman
Published in 1992 — the same year as Appleyard’s Understanding the Present — Technopoly is its American cousin. Where Appleyard exposed science as a new metaphysics, Postman maps how technology became the dominant religion of the modern West.
📘 Book Review: Understanding the Present by Bryan Appleyard
In Understanding the Present, Bryan Appleyard exposes what few in mainstream discourse have had the courage to admit: that science, once framed as the antidote to superstition, has quietly become a new kind of orthodoxy.
"To understand the future, we must first understand the ideas that made the present possible."