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It's ironic that he describes social media as an own goal but there isn't the introspection accompanying it that would lead to the obvious point you've made so
by ordinaryradical 6y ago
It's ironic that he describes social media as an own goal but there isn't the introspection accompanying it that would lead to the obvious point you've made so well.
Everyone in SV wants to be "up and to the right" in every quadrant map of anything. How comforting to simplify life to those terms, to exceptional winners and conventional deadweight. But if society takes your myopic vision and resulting creation and then eats itself and all its democratic institutions, to paraphrase Prinicpal Skinner:
"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the users who are wrong."
- jfarmer 6y agoAbsolutely! You can see it in this thread, even. There are folks excited by the prospect of using the phrase "aggressively non-conformist". pg is providing memetic ammunition for the very "culture wars" he claims he's trying to sit out. No introspection (or at least no _evidence_ of introspection), exactly as you say.
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