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Firstly it expresses a preference for the ''aggregate'' over the specific, and the ''average'' over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to prefer the mediocre, for its weight of numbers, over the isolated vision of a genius or the depravity of the ugliest man. | Firstly it expresses a preference for the ''aggregate'' over the specific, and the ''average'' over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to prefer the mediocre, for its weight of numbers, over the isolated vision of a genius or the depravity of the ugliest man. | ||
As surely as [[ugliest man|the ugliest man]] killed God, so did data kill the [[superman]]. The ''will to power'' is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the ''will to entropy''. It is the ''will to [[premium mediocre]]''. | As surely as [[ugliest man|the ugliest man]] killed God, so did data kill the [[superman]]. The ''will to power'' is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the ''[[will to entropy]]''. It is the ''will to [[premium mediocre]]''. | ||
===It is illiberal=== | ===It is illiberal=== | ||
Second, in its [[reductionism]], in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory of everything: a transcendent ''truth''. This, in the [[JC]]’s view, is a profoundly illiberal idea: to be unable to accommodate pluralism is to ''deny'' of pluralism. | Second, in its [[reductionism]], in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory of everything: a transcendent ''truth''. This, in the [[JC]]’s view, is a profoundly illiberal idea: to be unable to accommodate pluralism is to ''deny'' of pluralism. | ||