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idly thinking the american psyche has always run on hype, which is an approach that could actually be generative in an era of controlled information & attention distribution but pretty much fails completely in the modern attention ecosystem. idk untested thought
every time some tech "progress studies" guy is like "remember when we built the railroads and the space shuttle" yeah those were hype projects too but nobody else had anything to talk about......these days everything is so fragmented hype cycles accrue invariably to scammers
imo it's fundamentally untenable to be a "tbt to the great american projects of history" guy while also being a "let idiots do whatever they want/celebrate hype" guy it overlooks the basic evolution of information dynamics that's gotten us where we are today
True, and also it's sad to think that we wouldn't have gone to the Moon or had the Space Shuttle if Sputnik hadn't scared Americans into temporarily not despising science and engineering like we normally do. I think Japan's progress in '80s technology temporarily scared us again.
see "loving science/tech" is a split thing, half is "loving to do the hard foundational work" which we hate and the other half is "loving cool shiny new things" which we love. which is why 90% of the vc tech industry even exists lol just cycles of useless shiny bullshit
There were a lot of scammers before too though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery …pic.twitter.com/PuGdJdFGpH
oh of course american hype mentality has always been prone to scammers at every stage of history i'm just saying that besides the scammers there used to be opportunities to actually harness that for generative foundational projects and now i am less and less sure there still are
For what it’s worth, the railroads were also completely massive scams. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crédit_Mobilier_scandal …
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