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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoBecause silicon valley thinks it can define reality however it wants and keep telling us not to believe our lying eyes.
this seems to work better on techy people who don’t like thinking about politics but understand the technical details
Not weird at all; this was the case with cryptocurrency too. Otherwise qualified and intelligent people would invest in centralized scam coins because they had no understanding of economics, just tech.
It’s sad but cool that it works the same way with social capital.
Intelligence and expertise is worth pursuing for the benefit that comes from learning for the sake of learning, but it is true that there is a danger to knowing more and more about something in that it becomes more and more seductive to believe that the thing you are in expert in is a key to understanding everything else and that this gives you a righteous vantage to look down upon the genius of others and judge from afar.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Does it? None of my normie progressive friends are on the fediverse.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
calling people normies tends to do that
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
The tech press is talking to your normie friends?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
No I’m saying the logic and propaganda of corporate social media seems to work on them, despite it being in obvious contrast to their ideals.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m with you. To my knowledge all my irl woke friends ride only mainstream social media.
I had a local anarchist reach out to me on FB Messenger of all things.
I get that it’s not the most important part of you’re doing prefiguration, as far as I can tell most people just want to be where most people are, even if it is supporting actually vile corporations.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They didn’t mean those kind of progressives. Not the political one. But the ones that actually see beyond VC backed big tech.