Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 21, 2015Replying to @jzellis@jzellis I just have no real use for ineffective outrage or do-gooderism where I have no skills to be helpful.31
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 21, 2015Replying to @jzellis@jzellis Yes, and humans are mortal and the universe will end in heat death. And some people sneer, others screech back, others shut up.2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 21, 2015Replying to @jzellis@jzellis Again. I hear you. But what does railing against people building random apps do? That's seems an unavoidable side effect of stuff2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 21, 2015Replying to @vgr@jzellis And your plan is to lecture and rail till these selfish people turn noble and start an ideological revolution that goes genocidal?1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 21, 2015Replying to @jzellis@jzellis And mine is to tend my own patch and let whatever good spillover happens happen, but not shoot for either do-gooderism or cruelty11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @jzellis@jzellis You drop/ignore them, they eventually get starved out. If not, well, not our generation's job. These things take time.1:34 AM · Mar 21, 2015
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 21, 2015Replying to @jzellis@jzellis It's the view from the pragmatic seats. I am not a particularly revolutionary or altruistic.1