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Individual human beings are relatively powerless creatures, no match for lions or bears. It’s what they can do as groups that has enabledcontendedembodiedconjured enabled them to take over the planet. These groupings – corporations, religions, states – are now part of a vast network of overlappinginterconnectedfastenedexploited interconnected information flows. Finding points of resistance, where smaller units can standraisehailpump stand up to the waves of information washing around the globe, is becoming harder all the time.