Yes and, ironically, people are so distracted by their digital toys that they fail to understand the very real threat that these devices present to the liberty and security that they take for granted. Ominously, this increasingly asymmetric power in the hands of the surveillance state coincides with a period of vast and growing economic inequality powered by weaponized financialization and rent seeking and the opaque use of algorithms by corporations. It gets worse still because the parties of the left sold out to neoliberalism some time ago such that precious little language and discourse remains in the commons with which to fight back. Perilous times indeed for democracy while capitalist greed runs rampant.