Throwaway to avoid stigma of what I’m about to say:
It’s worse. This site is a good example. It’s rules limit the noise like you get on Reddit which makes it easy to see without automated counting.
Commentary here is often of the “if you disagree with what I see as a fundamental truth, and contextualize, even though it’s a subjective political opinion, well tldr: downvote.”
The group think here is insane. Protectionism of the ideas that we believe prop up our individual identity are not allowed to be challenged.
And I’ve not peddled conspiracy. Just that my work and agency shouldn’t be bent to the whim of elites.
It’s not “tech illiterate politicians”. It’s society addicted to shallow consumerism.
Being addicted to novelty and such is fine, there’s something to be said for that versus war, right?
But this site really doesn’t defend that. It defends social norms that denigrate the masses. That put tons of effort into crap.
That’s by design. Propaganda research went from military to university and was integrated into advertising, marketing, and journalism. That’s not a derpy state idea. It’s plainly recorded in official records.
Every generation ends and we don’t plan for that. We knew fighting to cling to their rules.
While we’re fetishizing their push for quarterly gains, we’re enabling the continued march down the path we’re on.
Gather supplies, coordinate with neighbors, and online to pick a Monday and stay home.
Even a visible enough sustained effort that direction, I feel, would create a ripple that lights a fire under politicians butts.
But let’s discuss fixing tech debt problems the insane grind creates, avoiding burnout it creates, how to get one more todo app of ridiculously shallow value out there, or fetishize Paul Graham’s request for a start up to build a reminder app that helps him send email? Like ffs be creative, Paul. Such low effort amateur ideas from the anointed ones. It’s almost disgusting.