Thank you so much for a succinct, courageous and insightful summary. For those of us who have been working on these structural and fundamentally frightening values for decades, it is a worthy summary of the realities of our society and country.
“A household teaches you that the most important parts of being human are rarely scalable” is the line that cuts straight through the silicon priesthood.
Because the real terror behind a lot of tech-utopian language is not intelligence. It’s impatience with dependency, care, slowness, aging, grief, children, and all the inconvenient human things that cannot be optimized into a dashboard.
They’re accelerationists. What a bleak thing to hurry along towards, the silicon priesthood’s promised dystopia. What an absolute failure of imagination.
Spot on. "People seemed more branded, more brittle, more willing to mistake confidence for competence." And we've been conditioned to believe that white male confidence = competence. And why they have to keep women unsure and back in their box because deep down they know women are more competent and a threat to their reign.
Thank you so much for a succinct, courageous and insightful summary. For those of us who have been working on these structural and fundamentally frightening values for decades, it is a worthy summary of the realities of our society and country.
This…exactly this!
Thank you so much for writing this piece! It is 100% on point! We really are nothing to most of them but a mere inconvenience.
You put it in a way that is very clear and foreboding. Thank you for the new insight.
“A household teaches you that the most important parts of being human are rarely scalable” is the line that cuts straight through the silicon priesthood.
Because the real terror behind a lot of tech-utopian language is not intelligence. It’s impatience with dependency, care, slowness, aging, grief, children, and all the inconvenient human things that cannot be optimized into a dashboard.
They’re accelerationists. What a bleak thing to hurry along towards, the silicon priesthood’s promised dystopia. What an absolute failure of imagination.
Achingly true.
Luv your writing style that highlights substance clearly and plainly.
Damn right! 🤛
Spot on. "People seemed more branded, more brittle, more willing to mistake confidence for competence." And we've been conditioned to believe that white male confidence = competence. And why they have to keep women unsure and back in their box because deep down they know women are more competent and a threat to their reign.
They both have to go back where they came from.