Jaron lanier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q facebook works like a tobacco company, they don't do the manipulating but the addicting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7hkPZ-HTk His most recent book, Deep Work, argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace and that the ability to concentrate without distraction is becoming increasingly valuable.

Lucretius?
"https://pastebin.com/mjsqjRFd '...One of important falsification reasons was also desire of free thinking or anti-church compositions' author (Lucretius Carus) to cover himself with an ancient name like with a shield. Depriving himself with a dangerous fame, the author was providing a wide spread for his views at least....'"

pastebin author argues that much classical literature and authors were actually fakes written by middleages authors who were in financial trouble or who pushed a certain viewpoint and having it attributed to for example Lucretius were able to get it accepted. We don't know whether Rerum Natura was actually written by Lucretius. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/7048614.pdf We may now proceed to a description of the political institutions of the greatest of all city-states - whether in the antique or the medieval world. Not, however, without one word of caution. Athenian democracy, no less than our own, was the result of a process of evolution, extending throughout at least two centuries, the main stages being marked by the legislation of Solon (circ. 594 B.C.) and of Cleisthenes (508 B.C.), and by the administration of Pericles (460-429 B.C.). This truth, long since recognized by students of Greek politics, has been further emphasized by the discovery of Aristotle's Athenian Constitution

How convenient, just as Europe's intellectuals were looking for a pretext to overthrow the Monarchs.

links
oop https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/glory-going-viral-fraud-promoted-big-tech savory institute