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> narcissistic dullards who are sick of the experts getting to say how things run and what to do. I'm not picking on a easy whipping boy, but isn't that a ra
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
> narcissistic dullards who are sick of the experts getting to say how
things run and what to do.
I'm not picking on a easy whipping boy, but isn't that a rather good
description of Mark Zuckerberg, his well documented disdain for the
establishment, authority and traditional structure?
Might it also encompass more of us "entrepreneurs" and hackers than we
care to admit? All of us who regularly feel "all these so-called
experts...they're doing it wrong! Let me show you"
Challengers to the incumbents aren't necessarily always destructive,
simply iconoclastic. They're part of a dynamic [0].
Perhaps "populism" is a more complex concept than we, and the linked
paper, are giving credit for (in a narrow political frame of
"economics". Whose economics?
[0] A complex dynamic between "elites" and "masses" that is well
analysed by Adam Curtis in many documetray projects.
- toss1 3y ago>>Might it also encompass more of us "entrepreneurs" and hackers than we care to admit? Maybe. But there are two polar opposites to the "doesn't like existing solutions" approach. Beyond that superficial similarity of conclusions, there is no similarity between a populist follower vs an upstart entrepreneur, scientist, etc. who puts in the massive amount of work required to gain the insight, and create a new and actually better solution to a complex problem. Conflating the two is a critical error.