Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

As Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, summarised postmodern ethics: "If you made it trend, you make it true.

If you ask me to summarise our mission I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.