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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In Arendt model, poiesis builds world to provides an arena for praxis. Like architects making *a* polis (building) for *the* polis (people)
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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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. both Google & Facebook have erred in recent 5+ years on the side of acting as if there still were "apolitical tech"
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Is this to be taken to mean that creation of any tool leads to the creation of privileged/deprived class?


