In both cases, it’s been a 1-2 punch following a “slowly, then all at once” pattern. Punch 1: a slow force beyond human control weakens a whole class of entities. Globalization eats vulnerable humans, software eats vulnerable institutions. Both have proved stronger than politics
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Humanists want to keep it simple. Just “resist” what Trump is doing with sheer force of abstract moral clarity. Unfortunately it isn’t simple. He’s steering potentially good forces towards evil, and it is tempting to try and shut down good forces in the process of stopping him.
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Ie, it’s the easiest thing in the world to let anti-trumpism turn into leftist anti-globalism and anti-techism. Sadly this is what I think will happen.
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I don’t hold out much hope for both forces (globalization and software eating the world) being put back on their fragile net-good tracks. I suspect both will just be pointed in a new evil direction. Decades of turn-taking in distorting big forces towards mutually opposed evils.
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