New Delhi, April 22 -- US tech firm Palantir published a "manifesto" on social media that set out a vision of untrammelled US power, proclaimed the superiority of Western civilisation and advocated for Silicon Valley to advance US hard power and solve sociopolitical problems. The post triggered outrage around the world, with scholars and politicians describing it as "technofascism", "a parody of a RoboCop film" and "the ramblings of a supervillain". The 22-point manifesto was an excerpt from Palantir CEO Alex Karp's 2025 book "The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West". Among other things, the document said "some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive", "we mus...