Post #4051823

2026-07-24 02:17 UTC

The kill-or-be-killed world of U.S. #business and #tech encourages managers and executives to fancy themselves crimelords, although they have to be a bit clever about admitting that they are in fact usually criminals in some way, committing frauds and breaking laws and maltreating workers. They try to affect that it's all part of the game, or rather of the endless state of war they say exists. It's not like they're wrong. Has the United States ever not been assaulting someone, internally or externally? (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 02:22

So all those dreary techlords like Andreessen and Musk and Jeff Bezos, in their various ways, put on airs of being "family" men, beneficent patrones subtly infused with the wisdom that only comes from the Old Country. Andreessen's compared himself to Lorenzo the Magnificent. Musk, true to his edgelord mimicry, yearns to be L. Cornelius Sulla, a man who established a highly personal sort of cult about himself and his Cornelii. It's all #marketing and #advertising still, perpetually pounding the same few images into everyone's heads. Rome, The Godfather (sorry Francis) and GoodFellas (sorry Marty), a neverending parade of kings and generals and shipmasters, the same few heroes, the same bundle of saints old and new, the same monomyth. (cont'd)

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@KaylinEvergreen@eldritch.cafe 2026-07-24 02:22

@mxchara@seattle.pink but what if I want to reread LotR?

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