"Where were you before!" and "you're surprised?" is the political equivalent of "this isn't new!" People want to justify their passivity.
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Replying to @zeynep
"This isn't new" is always true to a degree. Nothing is ever completely new. But there are new dynamics. Way forward is to understand them.
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"Where were you before" is not what people who care about protecting the most vulnerable would say. Who cares? Here now? Yes? Move forward.
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The cynical, savvy, well-read "nothing to see here" crowd could watch the world burn, saying we always had fire! Did you object before? See.
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I understand the cynical take, but really, most of it is people wanting to broaden their circle of passivity, to justify their own. meh.
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Not everyone can or should to be engaged with everything. But why try to discourage and tsk-tsk everyone else? That's the pernicious part.
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Cynicism and savvy-posturing will corrode one's soul. We all vent. I just don't like the effort to beat down people who want to ask Q now.
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This *is* a historical, transformative moment. Rapid, profound transformations: tech, computation & politics. "Nothing new" won't age well.
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We got pocket computers (which surveill and connect) in billions of hands, in about a decade, and people are still "nothing new"ing this.
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people have been saying “nothing new” for generations. Nothing new there
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