Techie disillusionment: a) this sucks b) hey! I built something better c) Nobody adopted it d) they're all bozos. 3x more common in politics
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One big learning for me from Hannah Arendt's 'Human Condition' is the precise reason why pure poisis (making/doerism) fails.
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But she makes the opposite error of thinking that praxis (political action/meaning making) is decoupled from poiesis. Only true in low-tech
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Technological "progress" is perhaps best defined as increasing, and increasingly irreversible, coupling between poiesis and praxis.
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This is like subsonic airplane design where you can safely assume that fluid and structure are decoupled. At hypersonic, this is untrue.
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Similarly, sufficiently advanced technological environment strongly couples praxis and poiesis. No apolitical tech, no non-tech politics.
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