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You need to watch "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis which outlines Silicon Valley's long Libertarian roots. Making money and greed h
by mempko 2y ago
You need to watch "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis which outlines Silicon Valley's long Libertarian roots. Making money and greed has been deeply embedded from the start.
- bee_rider 2y agoIs it based on the poem or just named after it? I don’t remember anything particularly libertarian about the poem.
- marxisttemp 2y agoIt is just named after the poem, as a reference to the SV ideology of stepping back and letting the machines and the networks decide our future.
- marxisttemp 2y agoAbsolutely love Adam Curtis. I was first exposed to AWOBMOLG in the basement of the Palais de Tokyo as an idealistic undergrad, and bristled at his claims. Since then it has become one of my favorite pieces of filmmaking. Great soundtrack too.
- Terr_ 2y ago> "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" This reminds me of the tycoon's thunderously semi-religious speech from The Network [0], which has aged pretty well for a movie 50 years old. > The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs&t=0m43s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs&t=0m43s