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The Intellectual Roots of Techno-Primitivism

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  The Intellectual Roots of Techno-Primitivism BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER     T he assault on enterprise of the last few years – meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones reflecting vibrant commercial life – has taken very strange forms. Ever since the   New York Times   said   the way forward was to “go Medieval,” the elites have been attempting just that. But this medievalism has not come at the expense of Big Data, Pharma, Ag, or Media. It mainly hits products and services that impact our freedom to buy, trade, travel, associate, and otherwise manage our own lives.  What began in lockdowns mutated into a thousand forms. That continues with daily new outrages. Maybe it’s not random.  We are also still trying to figure out what happened. Consider clothing control in the form of mask mandates. It turns out that they were just getting going. FOIA requests have  revealed  emails from November 2020 in which National Institutes of Health officials discussed forci