Another one,
"I certainly don’t think the pandemic was started deliberately as a way to impose tyranny, nor that it was seized upon as such an opportunity in the early stages. [..]
I believe what we have is an emergent tyranny, the various pre-existing components (technologies, cultural enmities etc) of which have been hooked up to each other by the pandemic, transformed into a working machine.
This is my anti-humanist take on it. This tyranny is not the expression of a coherent will, neither of any particular individuals nor of a class. It is more truthful to conceive of it as a fated development rather than a chosen one."