Machine Framing for Policy

Treating 'The Machine' as an explicit policy heuristic: identify where incentives for planning, efficiency, and scale (state, market, and platform) systematically erode local, covenantal institutions (family, church, neighborhood) and then design pro‑local countermeasures (permitting, civic repair, anti‑monopoly rules) rather than only arguing abstractly about 'modernity.' Kingsnorth’s rhetorical device becomes an operational lens to decide which public goods to protect and which industrial consolidations to regulate. — If adopted, this heuristic would reframe technology and culture debates into concrete governance choices—what to protect, what to permit, and how to rebuild civic capacity.