Although it's been quietly happening over the last decade, historian Timothy Snyder's new book "The End of Reality" has crystallized the tale of how an "interlocking directorate of Silicon Valley" moguls have come to snatch up large swathes of land to develop modern-day company towns.
In light of the de facto handover of U.S. territory ceded to the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Google, SpaceX and other tech giants, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to our new president-governor-fiefdom-plutocrats, as they take to their respective thrones. The writing is on the wall and there's no winning this battle, folks, so we're gathered here today to bend the knee.
