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Really the source material, regardless of its flaws struck me fundamentally as a well deserved reaction to the vast bullshit grievance mongering fields of sinec
by Nasrudith 3y ago
Really the source material, regardless of its flaws struck me fundamentally as a well deserved reaction to the vast bullshit grievance mongering fields of sinecures for pseudo-intellectuals. Those who do absolutely nothing to improve upon anything at all yet climb up upon the cross and act like they are the savior of us all. All those who shout for generic caution and claim profundity. Those who shame actual useful and productive work as fundamentally unethical, as if doing absolutely nothing in the face of problems would be preferable.
In truth they are all the same thing. The utterly useless casting themselves as essential like the typical liberal arts professor, but with less use for general writing writing. A billion "critiques of capitalism" have done less for the poor than one outsourcing to a third world nation. What has the "precautionary principle" wrought for anybody?
- ethanbond 3y agoAre the people who can write code (or write checks to people who can write code) the only ones with a legitimate stake in our future? Might it be that those “useless” people are doing what they can to try to steer toward good outcomes? “All those goddamn useless people writing articles about dumping chemicals into the river and they’ve never even dumped any chemicals into the rivers themselves!”