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I miss the 90's Silicon Valley. Laser focused on innovation and mostly liberatarian. I would kill to go back and rewind time. Currently, this place feels total

I miss the 90's Silicon Valley. Laser focused on innovation and mostly liberatarian. I would kill to go back and rewind time. Currently, this place feels totalitarian on a cultural level. Can't express diverging views. Can't think from the fundamentals and seek truth. Can't criticize the person next to you. The game everyone seems to be playing is who is more woke than the person next to them. This whole thing escalates with no checks and balances. A total relentless wokefest. I am fine with talking about social issues but it is impossible with these people. Activism, it's not as President Obama said just this year. This is on the front page of NYT right now. That's how bad it has gotten: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curriculum-guidelines.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric... I will be voting for anything but the current situation.

trasz 5y ago
Can’t express diverging views about the shape of Earth or how vaccines cause authism. What you call “woke” is just a lowered tolerance to fringe theories in ethics, same way many people don’t tolerate fringe theories about cosmology or medicine.
- sceptical 5y ago
  Wokeness is a religion. As such that is fine but why pretend otherwise.
  - trasz 5y ago
    Not a religion, but rather an ideology. It's usually spelled humanism, though.
    - systemvoltage 5y ago
      One of the problems of woke ideology is the ostensible moral superiority they display over others to push their agenda. Arrogant, intolerable and incorrigible. In their mind, they are righteous and everyone that is not onboard is evil. Sounds familiar?
      - trasz 5y ago
        I'm pretty sure antivaxxers are saying the same about educated folks.
        systemvoltage 5y ago
        I think the antivaxxers are largely a group of people that have not looked at the data but instead following Twitter and FB, they're skeptical because everyone around them at the dinner table and office table is. But, there is a whole group of provaxxers that just don't want to give into the Government overreach which many nations have clinched on during this pandemic. This group gets into the crossfire - they have a point.
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  This is the problem. Not all diverging opinions are insane anti science bs you’re talking about. I reject both wokeness and trumpism, Qanon, etc. There is a giant turf in the middle that you fail to acknowledge.
  - trasz 5y ago
    Of course not all diverging opinions are fringe. But those that “wokeness” is against are.

trasz 5y ago

Can’t express diverging views about the shape of Earth or how vaccines cause authism. What you call “woke” is just a lowered tolerance to fringe theories in ethics, same way many people don’t tolerate fringe theories about cosmology or medicine.

sceptical 5y ago
Wokeness is a religion. As such that is fine but why pretend otherwise.
- trasz 5y ago
  Not a religion, but rather an ideology. It's usually spelled humanism, though.
  - systemvoltage 5y ago
    One of the problems of woke ideology is the ostensible moral superiority they display over others to push their agenda. Arrogant, intolerable and incorrigible. In their mind, they are righteous and everyone that is not onboard is evil. Sounds familiar?
    - trasz 5y ago
      I'm pretty sure antivaxxers are saying the same about educated folks.
      - systemvoltage 5y ago
        I think the antivaxxers are largely a group of people that have not looked at the data but instead following Twitter and FB, they're skeptical because everyone around them at the dinner table and office table is. But, there is a whole group of provaxxers that just don't want to give into the Government overreach which many nations have clinched on during this pandemic. This group gets into the crossfire - they have a point.
systemvoltage 5y ago
This is the problem. Not all diverging opinions are insane anti science bs you’re talking about. I reject both wokeness and trumpism, Qanon, etc. There is a giant turf in the middle that you fail to acknowledge.
- trasz 5y ago
  Of course not all diverging opinions are fringe. But those that “wokeness” is against are.