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For reasons I’ve never dug into, NorCal has a rich history of people banding together to do goofy things. Cults? Where better to start one? (It’s one of the re
by kstrauser 2y ago
For reasons I’ve never dug into, NorCal has a rich history of people banding together to do goofy things. Cults? Where better to start one?
(It’s one of the reasons I love it here. That same energy manifests amazing art, hackerspaces, meetups, and other fun things.)
- lenerdenator 2y ago> goofy things When you have members of the movement referring to those who will be left behind as "median humans" (Altman) and making major changes to government that are to the detriment of society (Musk, to a lesser extent, Thiel and Andreessen), we're no longer "goofy". "Scary" is a better word. The Flying Spaghetti Monster? That's goofy.
- kstrauser 2y ago"Goofy" isn't benign to me. It's a statement of quality of the idea, not of the end result of it. For example, Jim Jones's cult was from here and I would describe it as goofy.