Started to read the manifesto, and my stomach turned in. Thank you Andrew for taking the time to unpack yet another attempt at world domination.
Here's an idea for an experiment, just for a few months. Take away their bank accounts, their stock holdings, their household staff, real estate, the personal trainers and the private jets,the stacked Rolodex, the sycophants, the media adoration. Make them work a regular job for a living, do all the domestic work and the child rearing, experience the hundred job application rejections, live in a tiny apartment next to a chemical factory, be discriminated against based on their gender or the color of their skin, deal with a chronic health issue with no health insurance.
Excellent response to the recent hubris from a figurehead of the Effective Accelerationalist Cult. The manifesto really does paint a reductionist, overly simplistic picture of complex socio-economic landscapes, pinning challenges solely on technological stagnancy. This narrative, redolent of elitism, casually assumes a universal technological panacea, turning a blind eye to entrenched systemic disparities.
The manifesto's historical and philosophical underpinnings appear selectively curated, moulding a techno-optimistic story that skews the multifaceted reality of technological evolution and its societal and ecological reverberations. It's a cherry-picked tale woven to champion a linear trajectory of progress, a stark departure from more nuanced perspectives that embrace the intricate, often non-linear symbiosis between technology, society, and our living biosphere.
By heralding technology as the silver bullet for all material woes, the manifesto is emblematic of technological determinism, overlooking the rich tapestry of relations among technology, societal structures, and the natural environment. It's brimming with an unyielding endorsement of free markets, simplifies the labyrinthine dynamics of market economies, turning a blind eye to market failures and externalities. It presupposes a level playing field, a far cry from the often skewed terrains of techno-capital landscapes.
It's ungrounded historical and philosophical bearings offer a linear, unidimensional view of progress, bypassing alternative lenses that appreciate the complex interplay between technology and societal evolution. It could easily fit in some parody in a rehashed season of the HBO series Silicon Valley, promotes a form of techno-utopianism devoid of a critical engagement with the broader socio-political and ethical tapestry within which technology is embedded and evolved. No doubt galvanising to some people, it lacks the critical discourse imperative for a balanced, holistic, and inclusive future.
Like seriously Marc et al, there is no viable escape to New Zealand or Mars strategy.
Well said Matthew. This is elitism and techno hubris at its most self-entitled. I'm starting to think the empathy neurons (genes?) of these people have withered away completely.
This is a fantastic article - well balanced, well thought through and a great critique of something that unfortunately doesn’t share these attributes!
Started to read the manifesto, and my stomach turned in. Thank you Andrew for taking the time to unpack yet another attempt at world domination.
Here's an idea for an experiment, just for a few months. Take away their bank accounts, their stock holdings, their household staff, real estate, the personal trainers and the private jets,the stacked Rolodex, the sycophants, the media adoration. Make them work a regular job for a living, do all the domestic work and the child rearing, experience the hundred job application rejections, live in a tiny apartment next to a chemical factory, be discriminated against based on their gender or the color of their skin, deal with a chronic health issue with no health insurance.
Then have them write their manifesto again.
Excellent response to the recent hubris from a figurehead of the Effective Accelerationalist Cult. The manifesto really does paint a reductionist, overly simplistic picture of complex socio-economic landscapes, pinning challenges solely on technological stagnancy. This narrative, redolent of elitism, casually assumes a universal technological panacea, turning a blind eye to entrenched systemic disparities.
The manifesto's historical and philosophical underpinnings appear selectively curated, moulding a techno-optimistic story that skews the multifaceted reality of technological evolution and its societal and ecological reverberations. It's a cherry-picked tale woven to champion a linear trajectory of progress, a stark departure from more nuanced perspectives that embrace the intricate, often non-linear symbiosis between technology, society, and our living biosphere.
By heralding technology as the silver bullet for all material woes, the manifesto is emblematic of technological determinism, overlooking the rich tapestry of relations among technology, societal structures, and the natural environment. It's brimming with an unyielding endorsement of free markets, simplifies the labyrinthine dynamics of market economies, turning a blind eye to market failures and externalities. It presupposes a level playing field, a far cry from the often skewed terrains of techno-capital landscapes.
It's ungrounded historical and philosophical bearings offer a linear, unidimensional view of progress, bypassing alternative lenses that appreciate the complex interplay between technology and societal evolution. It could easily fit in some parody in a rehashed season of the HBO series Silicon Valley, promotes a form of techno-utopianism devoid of a critical engagement with the broader socio-political and ethical tapestry within which technology is embedded and evolved. No doubt galvanising to some people, it lacks the critical discourse imperative for a balanced, holistic, and inclusive future.
Like seriously Marc et al, there is no viable escape to New Zealand or Mars strategy.
Well said Matthew. This is elitism and techno hubris at its most self-entitled. I'm starting to think the empathy neurons (genes?) of these people have withered away completely.