Feels like tech backlash 2.0 is starting up, a qualitatively different line of attack/critique that features a different kind of critic launching a different variety of hostile attack 🤔
This isn't the Morozov/Roose type attacks.
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Can't put my finger on it, but it isn't the old "arrogant aspie techbros trying to make an app for everything, who need to study humanities and learn to kiss my ass."
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One legible strain is bad faith deployment of climate concerns as an anti-billionaire-ressentiment weapon. Another is regulation attempts now growing up. But the thing I'm sensing is more like illegible background gaslighting beyond those things.
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the charismatic megafauna big 5 game species of africa: lion, leopard, cape buffalo, rhino, elephant
big 5 charismatic mega-emitters: nuclear power,* bitcoin, billionaire space flights, plastic waste, cheap things made in china
* this is called a "joke"
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Thing I'm sensing has more of a retreat/boycott/cozyweb feel, and pointedly trying to find re-enchantment in things that seem secure from being app-ified and shoved under the API. A kind of going-boneless passive resistance. Almost Gandhian. Politically weaponized waldenponding
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The new thing is not just against SV culture and VCs and entrepreneurs and new money. It feels somewhat anti-tech (small t)
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One of the things little known outside India is that Gandhi was a proper luddite, kinda Jeffersonian-agrarian. He almost blocked India from industrializing. Luckily Nehru and others realized you can't run a nation in the 20th century using medieval spinning wheels
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Hmm, techlash 2.0 might simply be passive aggressive muttering more than any energized coherent thing
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Seems Lovecraftian to me - these corporations have become more corporeal, and while we summoned them (i.e., incoporated them) intending they do our bidding, now we find roles reversed. People are afraid of the control and power. Seems adjacent to Lying Flat.
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Is it at the nation state level, perhaps analogous to this? -> independent.co.uk/news/world/ame
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The Bitcoin folks are actively lobbying congress right now (unsuccessfully this time around) so the fight might feel a bit different than the previous ones since they're doing it earlier than later. But tech gets dumped on by legislation all the time because most don't show up.
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No. Apple, Tesla. Nvidia, TSMC, ASML, etc., I could go on and on, can sell everything they can produce. I lend a five-year-old my phone to play a cat cookies game. Come back, and 15 new games are loaded, we’re played. Three-year-old prefers iPad.
Tech backlash not in sales.
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