@PragmaticAndy@mastodon.social
Post #4016392
2026-07-22 14:32 UTC
"Today, Silicon Valley’s centre of gravity is moving from the ‘Californian ideology’ – the 1990s fusion of counterculture libertarianism and digital utopianism – toward what the communication professor Fred Turner recently called the ‘Texan ideology’: a century-old fusion of resource exploitation and millenarian Christianity, the conviction that providential destiny justifies the conquest of nature and the extraction of its wealth."
https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-problem
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@tasket@infosec.exchange 2026-07-22 16:11
@PragmaticAndy@mastodon.social Author: "They didn't get it; those stories are about degradation and collapse." Oh, sweet summer child... they get it. 🙃 Framing oligarchs as stupid is one of the strongest knee-jerk responses among intellectuals today and its getting us nowhere.
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@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 15:43
@PragmaticAndy@mastodon.social it was a very different age when we learned about technology in Whole Earth Review. Heck. My first internet account was with The Well, The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link.