The case of Kilmar Abrego García [17], shunted from detention in one country to another, with no end in sight [18], recalls the World War II-era classic of dystopian fiction The Twenty-Fifth Hour [19] by Romanian writer C. Virgil Gheorghiu [20]. The wartime transnational detention system, harrowingly depicted in the novel, was seen by Gheorghiu as an inevitable manifestation [21] of our technocratic civilization that exalts the machine above humanity, ultimately resulting in the treatment of human beings as mere cogs in the state-industrial apparatus. This process is more advanced today with the current hypertrophy of the technosphere [22], which is related to the re-emergence [23] of abuses approaching those of the fascist era, and ultimately bodes poorly for humanity's future [24]. In Episode 294 [25] of the CounterVortex podcast [26], Bill Weinberg takes an unsparing look at this grim juncture for the human race.
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