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In the 1980s it was competitive cocaine insufflation. This may be an improvement.

• deepfriedchokes 1y ago
  There’s been a lot of psychedelics in Silicon Valley for decades now. Back in the day I bet it had a pretty significant positive impact on the grey beards who built the place, but now that it’s being used by the money guys with big egos who came to exploit the place, it’s probably pretty detrimental. Ram Dass warned everyone about this. If you go through the doors of perception with your ego you lose your damn mind. I think a lot of the anti-democratic tech bro behavior we’re seeing is a result of this.
  • api 1y ago
    That’s an aspect I hadn’t thought about. It really does seem like a bunch of these folks have gotten into some kind of crazy messianic world savior ego trip. Hadn’t considered the psychedelics plus ego angle yet in exactly that way.
    • Eddy_Viscosity2 1y ago
      Part of that may be drugs, but my guess is that its a minor one. The messianic savior ego trip behavior is probably more because the type of person who would be prone to narcissistic hubris is now entering tech because that's where all the money and power is. Whereas in the early days, this wasn't so clear. So now we have all these tech-bros where we used to have tech-nerds.