Wishful as in -- for people attached to the opposite of political imaginary attached to civilizational cores and fearful of new frontier power.
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To me the critique sounds like the exact dual of rough-and-ready frontier types dismissing using the right forks, at the right elite dinner parties as cheap theater, when in fact it steers the fates of trillions of dollars and billions of people.
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I think you're mistaking the echo for the real thing. What you're referring to as frontier ideology is an echo -- cultural-political ephemera. It's the difference between Freeman Dyson's nuclear rocket plans and spec-fic in Astounding Stories.
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There is *always* a live frontier ideology and an active world of ideas and actions at it. I think you're kinda looking for it in the wrong place, and are reluctant to acknowledge the right place because it's full of assholes. Which is a cost of doing frontier business.
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Frontiers are as full of assholes as civ cores are full of hypocrites. The moral failing turns into the adverse selection that turns into the "wrong people doing the right thing for the wrong reasons" in the 2 zones.
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In civ cores, you have preening, posturing people engaged in greasy pole climbing in DC beltway or Davos, obsessed with appearances and shallow theater and refining hypocrisy into a high institutional art... it's the reality of "civilization" as opposed to high ideologies of it
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In frontiers, you have assholes doing power-driven fait accompli things simply because they can and riding roughshod over attempts to draw them into social consensus problems and subject what they're doing to collective scrutiny...
And like it or not, silicon valley winners, at every level, no matter how much you may disdain them, have in fact constituted a true frontier ecology for 20 years. One that has genuinely gone far beyond what the DARPA era created as foundation.
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A key "tell" of people who refuse to acknowledge frontier driven by SV is to dismiss everything between the DARPA funded era and now as superficial cosmetic bs and privatization of public goods/exproporiation.
No, this is an uncharitable and basically wrong reading.
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