I really want to have a strong vibrant anti-stasis tech-driven rallying point. But it's so clear that the California Ideology has been warped into endless corpo

I really want to have a strong vibrant anti-stasis tech-driven rallying point. But it's so clear that the California Ideology has been warped into endless corporate liberty to do whatever, that there's no adversarial Interoperability allowed, that it's a become an ideology around building fiefs and believing in absolute sovereignty of the lords of the data center. It's so weird to me how pervasively illiciting control over each and every device in humanity's world is just aok, better than fine. Has this ideology always been consumed by such a top down belief structure, thought that only a few need to participate and sheppard & steer & everyone else gets to follow along? Or were there moments where this was a broader more encompassing & open hope? What's just so staggeringly obviously blind about this situation is that if you want to accelerate & get humanity moving, this is so obviously such a hideous & narrow constrained path. Innovation is so contested by IP and "criminal violation of business model" (inability to write & use our own tools without being kicked off and/or sued by online properties). And further, the extreme consumerism of this high tech system reduces us, it keeps humanity under the heel of far off lords of the cloud; we can't grow to become a technological society under these conditions. We plod along under an rigged system where we are all infantalized, baby-ed along with glossy superficial interfaces that conceal the real bases of power that pervade all these systems we are so deeply entailed in. I have a hard time assessing whether California Ideology has always been like this, or whether it's just the notable figures and people of late associated with CI that have brought us to such a point.