I find this to be an expression of lazy thinking far more than a contribution to the discussion. On Futurism and Marinetti (and Boccioni, Depero, Sant'Elia) I

I find this to be an expression of lazy thinking far more than a contribution to the discussion. On Futurism and Marinetti (and Boccioni, Depero, Sant'Elia) I am probably better informed than others--an interest that began many years ago, in high school, when one of our teachers had us read Marinetti's poem "Zang Tumb Tumb," parole in libertà [words in freedom], and then continued through reading books such as Claudia Salaris's books on Futurism, various biographies of Marinetti (the most popular and entertaining is by Giordano Bruno Guerri, not translated as far as I know) and Boccioni, and visits to museums (some 20 years ago, a number of futurist artifacts, including Boccioni's famous Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, were exhibited in a room of the Tate Gallery in London, accompanied by the music of the Chemical Brothers. It was a formidable experience). And to me, the techno-fascim of the Futurists has nothing to do with the tech-bro culture. The first group dealt with machines, the second with software (of course, there was no software then, but machines and Futurism were inseparable entities); the first group showed up in theaters and gave "futurist slaps" to the audience, I don't see any of the tech-bros slapping anyone (and it's much better that way); the Futurists went to war and died in battle, the tech-bros drink kombucha.