Counterpoint: these masters of planning couldn't even supply people with a decent pair of shoes. One's ability to credit Russian apparatchiks with mystical powers appears to be in inverse proportion to contact with the society they built for themselves.https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1020377091597000704 …
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Socialism couldn't even make acid-free paper—you think the Master Plan is still tacked to the GRU headquarters wall in Sverdlovsk? It's not Boris and Natasha in Sverdlovsk who are going to decide this fall's election. We need to get out there and knock some doors.
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@tristanharris had more familiarity with American evangelical culture, they would be less ready to credit this kind of 'WE ARE IN STAGE 2 OF THE KGB MASTER PLAN' silliness. It's a secularized version of Christian prophetic lunacy.#RaptureReadyShow this thread -
But as I said, computer nerds grow up dealing with systems that are, despite all their apparent complexity, deterministic, Taking these mental habits into the real world, they become convinced that there must exist a 'sudo' for human beings, and that we're in a race to find it.
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I think the computer nerds are especially susceptible because this kind of thinking *actually works* when you're dealing with computer systems. There really are places where you can reliably touch one button and bring a virtual world to its knees
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