The Zany Zeitgeist of the Silicon Valley Cognitive Elite (Part 2)
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The Silicon Valley cognitive elite took me down a rabbit hole where one thing led to others and those to more still. Network-state enthusiasts and techno-optimists rub shoulders with MAGA stalwarts and neoreactionary bloggers. They are united by an antigovernment, antidemocratic ethos, deep feelings of persecution by liberal tyranny, and hatred of taxation. A sense of civic and social responsibility is nowhere to be found. In its stead is naïve faith that the free market and technology unleashed from government rules and regulation will produce the best of all possible worlds. To this end they would lay waste to the administrative state, leaving behind a skeletal government that functions as if the world were unchanged since 1787.
The Zany Zeitgeist of the Silicon Valley Cognitive Elite (Part 2)
The Zany Zeitgeist of the Silicon Valley…
The Zany Zeitgeist of the Silicon Valley Cognitive Elite (Part 2)
The Silicon Valley cognitive elite took me down a rabbit hole where one thing led to others and those to more still. Network-state enthusiasts and techno-optimists rub shoulders with MAGA stalwarts and neoreactionary bloggers. They are united by an antigovernment, antidemocratic ethos, deep feelings of persecution by liberal tyranny, and hatred of taxation. A sense of civic and social responsibility is nowhere to be found. In its stead is naïve faith that the free market and technology unleashed from government rules and regulation will produce the best of all possible worlds. To this end they would lay waste to the administrative state, leaving behind a skeletal government that functions as if the world were unchanged since 1787.