RE: https://scholar.social/@jrbe/117322551641463338
The linked article is a great read. The implied open question at the end, now that the world has so much inertia in the cyberlibertarian ethos, how do we begin to course correct? I'm not well versed in political theory. But the flow of events suggests that cultural practice led to regulation (or lack there of) led to infrastructure that led to cultural practice, in a feedback loop of sadness.
Infrastructure is hard to change, at least the big stuff. Projects like Butterbox and @spritely have got my mind marinating on building small, local community through these technologies. The trick is keeping each person safe at least technically while sharing resources.
Plus, you know, the whole in-person communication thing. I've historically not been great at that. The whole paranoid psychosis is difficult even when well medicated.
I needed this.
"I was young enough that I also thought "Snow Crash" was a serious political document."
The political society of Snow Crash immediately gave way, in literature, to that of Diamond Age, and the Thiels and Musks of the world appear to have never read that one, or perhaps chose to ignore it.
https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
