Big Tech Has Helped Trash America

An opinion of pure sensationalism.

It needs a particularly potent brand of coolaid to think that the thousands of people who went to do the Q-putsch somehow magically arose from "tech" giving them fertile ground.

The fertile ground was a country on the brink for more than a decade. Denying that, and trying to find "alternative facts" belong to the domain of psychiatry no less than calls to drink Chlorox.

Seeing no acknowledgement that 74 millions of US citizens decided to vote to say FU to the American establishment is a sign that bigger problems for US are yet to come.

While the version of events leading to the civil war given in popular history books try no wrap it all around the slavery, it's an incredible shallow explanation omitting complete economic domination of northern states, and bigger picture of social dynamics of the time. Saying that the south went to war "just to keep their slaves" is terribly incomplete picture.

Wall Street and a corrupt government trashed America by allowing the industrial base that provided value, productivity and purpose to people's lives to be merged, sold and offshored until all that's left for middle America to do is try to get a job at Walmart.

Big tech gives those people a voice. Kara Swisher just doesn't like what they're saying.

Does the cult of personality — its leader, followers, and traditional media amplifiers — bear no responsibility? In the context of this article, “big tech” seems only to be a convenient scape goat, given that this is hardly the first time masses devoted themselves to a truth-less strongman.

This article is filled with anecdotes and provides no real evidence to back its outlandish assertion. Mass delusion and political cults are not new phenomena.

I’m sure the printing press also “helped trash America,” by the author’s standard.