The final chapter contrasts the dataistic arts of governance developing in the West and in China. While both systems rely on synthetic selection, recursive refinement and surreptitious surveillance, the chapter highlights key differences between a discordant West and a harmonious East. Drawing from analyses produced by Shoshana Zuboff, Naomi Klein, Thomas Piketty, Yanis Varoufakis and others, it documents the negative effects of dataistic technologies, including addiction, depression, disinformation and the erosion of privacy. Constituting a new ‘invisible hand’, these technologies exert a compelling force. By actively cultivating opacity, confusion and tension, they produce a new form of ‘power-ignorance’—an inversion of the power–knowledge relation that has been central to the modern project. In contrast, China’s intensive pursuit of harmony is shown to be highly ordered and effective, particularly in the production of social order and the response to Covid-19. This order, however, comes at significant cost.