Inevitability rhetoric is a fraud that disables resistance to power

Evidence

Every doctrine of inevitability carries a weaponized virus of moral nihilism programmed to target human agency and delete resistance and creativity from the text of human possibility. Inevitability rhetoric is a cunning fraud designed to render us helpless and passive in the face of implacable forces that are and must always be indifferent to the merely human. This is the world of the robotized interface, where technologies work their will, resolutely protecting power from challenge. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 704

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Arguably the chapter’s core thesis: inevitability talk is not neutral description but an active weapon against human agency — worth sitting with despite being expressed aphoristically.
• XREF: connects to: Inevitabilist rhetoric frames political choices as unopposable historical necessities — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 693; Inevitability rhetoric erases the fingerprints of actual power holders — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 703; Hypernationalist rhetoric served to justify a supranational monopoly of power (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Inevitabilism is a rhetorical cover for contingent capitalist choices driving surveillance. #corroborates (0.92) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 709
• Hypernationalist rhetoric served to justify a supranational monopoly of power #exemplifies (0.75)