And that feels ultimately like what these billboards-like the faceless eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg a hundred years before—are telling us about America's new Gilded Age: so much of our public discourse, so many of our vaunted institutions, so much of our collective attention, care, and heartbreak are sacrificed to the superrich conning one another. We can't understand what tech calls governing without the simple truth that it doesn't ultimately seem interested in governing us. What Silicon Valley calls governing is detached from and disinterested in human nature and normal life, even when it comes to normal life with technology and the internet. It is fixated on privilege and hierarchies for their own sake. And whatever intellectual ambition it possesses is easily seduced by ideologies that support these privileges and hierarchies.