dylanaildon:

one of the things that freaks me out most about tech culture is its overbearing operational conviction that its way of thinking is the right one and the best one.

like, the particular rational, systematization-oriented mode/habit of thought that can be and is very effective for building many, many types of systems, but is painfully limiting, poisoned by its own conceit of attempted value-neutrality, and utterly void of any ethical facet other than a blind, insensible drive to perpetuate its own freedom to continue (which generally manifests in some level/flavor of libertarian sentiment)

and then, even MORE so, when those sort of people start soaking up money and effusive validation from a place like NYC that has a deep identity commitment to “the arts”, and tries to combine its darling cutting-edge startup/tech culture with said “arts”, you get a web of blind little egos trying to apply their magical methodologies with dogmatic fervor to everything possible

it’s like Richard Wagner telling his patron Prince Ludwig how to rule his country, except with this you just get a millions articles like “Why Every Writer Should Learn To Code” and an incredibly toxic social atmosphere that validates and supports capitalism’s encouragement that everyone instrumentalize everyone else.