Paul Garfinkel’s Reviews > Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity > Status Update

25% into this book and I'm nearly suicidal. The cloying, depressive, sinister pessimism is so couched in Luddite hyperbole it feels like I'm slogging barefoot through waste deep tar. It started with promise - but the authors cherry-picked armageddon laced references and self-generated opinions are so utterly miserable as to paint us as hopeless. The only way out is abandonment. Perhaps the technoligarchs are correct.