"Where were you before!" and "you're surprised?" is the political equivalent of "this isn't new!" People want to justify their passivity.
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Cynicism and savvy-posturing will corrode one's soul. We all vent. I just don't like the effort to beat down people who want to ask Q now.
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This *is* a historical, transformative moment. Rapid, profound transformations: tech, computation & politics. "Nothing new" won't age well.
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George Orwell made this point exactly in Animal Farm. The passive skeptic/cynic played the part of the ass.
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I wrote something about this a while ago, in a slightly different variation: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/02/01/anti-solutionism/ …
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that's great!
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Also common: "Why don't you also protest against [something unrelated]?" My answer: "One evil at a time."
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