People nostalgize the past but Stewart Brand attended the same prep school as Zuck, Leary was a Harvard psychologist who first tried shrooms at an affluent resort town outside Mexico City. These movements were privileged, even if it’s not as extremely unequal as it is now.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1064639819123351552 …
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Replying to @surliertexan
I see your likes! What papers are writing/researching?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Currently writing a dissertation on the political & scientific history of LSD! Leary definitely was/became a proto-libertarian who ended up espousing the evolutionary superiority of tech bros and nootropic brain-hackers over the rest of humanity.
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Replying to @surliertexan
"tech bro" is not a term that existed until 2013 or so. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%22tech%20bro%22 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @surliertexan
I grew up in Silicon Valley. The notion that you could be both a nerd and a jock at the same time was really... unusual until after the last financial crisis and a bunch of Wall Street types came back into the industry culture.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @surliertexan
I did not grow up in Silicon Valley. And still, yes, the notion that you could be both a nerd and a jock at the same time was really... unusual until after the last financial crisis
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Replying to @travisatkins @kimmaicutler
Just to be clear, the kind of person who would use the phrase “bros before hos,” which is how I understand bro culture, is not limited to jocks. Plenty of neckbeards and pencil necks would use this phrase or some functional equivalent.
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Replying to @surliertexan @travisatkins
The original creator of the Facebook brogramming page which popularized and maybe even coined the term itself regrets having created that page, bc the meme/joke clearly got out of control.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @travisatkins
Interesting! How ideas spread is a really fascinating topic.
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Yes, a great listicle would be satirical ideas that got beyond the control of their creators and instead became a pervasive reality.
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