A review by hauteclere
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie

4.0

We owe Mr. Wylie a debt of gratitude for coming forward, at considerable personal risk and cost, to tell this story. And he tells it well, and clearly and concisely. What emerges is of course, simply horrific, and at times intensely cringe-worthy. We see upper-class-Brit-twits from, as we say nowadays, central casting destroying the world while having a lovely time and indulging sordid fever dreams of empire. We see the people who crawled out from under diverse rocks seize the tools created by carelessness, callousness, and cupidity and break things, fast. And, perhaps most importantly, Mr. Wylie is utterly convincing when he says we have nothing to hold against this. There are no sufficiently strong regulations or regulators, and the voice of the people is now heard only after it has been tortured and twisted through the instruments of the ruthless and their greedy technocrat allies.