I will never tire of this meme. I wish it would stop being relevant, though.
The people behind this and ‘Leopards Eating People’s Faces’ are visionaries
Earlier today the LEPF made the difficult decision to order a temporary reduction of the Orphan Crushing Machine to 20% of normal operating speed, so as to facilitate the high boot demands of the brand new Torment Nexus.
“While we can not crush their bodies with this new approach, we can crush their spirits incredibly effectively.” said Oligarch Extraordinaire and infamous Tech Mogul, our friend Mueter Eel.
the problem is conservatives are incapable of abstract thought, so they have no media literacy and can never think about what the stories mean. even when they’re quite explicit.
that’s why a moron like elon looks at them and thinks “cool, Torment Nexus, it even has the cool X in the name! I should have someone make that. and the world will finally love me.”
I mean I feel like it’s less conservatives in general not having media literacy and just people in general not having media literacy. Even liberals will watch stuff like Andor and still not understand the deeper messages it has about resistance. At the end of the day it’s just a general lack of education especially in America.
I mean liberals are a whole other thing but even if you would say this about leftists instead, my point didn’t imply that the exact opposite is true: obviously being a leftist doesn’t automatically make you a genius media analyst. I’m just saying the conservative mindset is extremely adverse to any level of abstraction, which renders them incapable of a lot of things, understanding analogies being one of them.
also why they can never understand big picture issues (I’m holding a snowball so global warming can’t be real), prioritize statistics over anecdotes (I got sick after a shot so vaccines don’t work at all), or empathize with people they don’t know (eg oppose gay rights, only to support when a family member comes out–if at all).
now that doesn’t mean someone who believes in worker rights automatically is better at all of this, but at least it isn’t physically impossible for them to be so.
Demonizing people is dangerous because it leads us to miss when we make the same mistakes.
In the past I’ve had an idea for a project at work or as a hobby. But when I look into it a bit closer, maybe I got the idea from something I’ve read where it didn’t turn out well. It’s easy to say: I’ve been warned so I’ll avoid the problems and it’ll turn out okay. But that’s why collaboration and review is so important, because it provides a more objective perspective.
If anything, I’d guess that oligarchs have these terrible ideas because they surround themselves with enablers who aren’t objective.
I am re-reading peak Stephenson cyberpunk (Snow Crash, Diamond Age) and it just hits different when you feel like you’re reading from inside the prequel.
Diamond Age is pretty optimistic in the efficacy of automated education yet is centered around the existential threat of print-at-home nukes. I feel like weʼll get the print-at-home nukes long before at-scale education of government-raised babies works out.
There were definitely a few Lockheed ass mfs who completely missed the point of Horizon: Zero Dawn
Years after I saw an article about a company working on fueling machines with animals.
Oh, you mean this.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/robots-that-eat-people/
“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission."
Excuse me while I dust off my feathered headdress and technospear.
The world is turning into the cyberpunk universe. Just with multitudes more corpo fascist shit and very little of the technology.
And geopolitically it’s headed that way. How many of the following traits do you think will come true ?
In cyberpunk…
North America is a wasteland. 60 percent of the population dies of famine. There’s a civil war in America. And private entities carved out their own fiefdoms where everyone except the executive class lives like cattle
Eastern Europe and most of Asia minor is a never ending warzone
Western Europe and east Asia become the world’s financial and economic centers. Except they too live with their own disasters
Entire countries are wiped off the map either from war or climate disaster
