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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex Too much incepting themselves on techbro rat*onalist blogs b/c they are too rich to do anything other than Consume The Internet all day. That article strongly vibes with one of my other fav windows into SV society -harpers.org/archive/2015/01/come-with-us-if-you-want-to-live/Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex IMO: Too much time soaking in any ideology without the right meme-immunities can break anyone and the techbro rich have nothing to do *but* soak in ideology b/c they believe that understanding things by reading about them on the web is the secret to their success.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex D*wkins was an asshole about a lot of things, but the idea that people can get ideas and spread them in basically the same way as a virus seems to me to be the one thing he was right about :/ ...On twitter.com
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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex I think a lot about Barrens Chat in World of Warcraft and how the whole Alt-R*ght and G*m*rG*te were all there as early as 2005 just 'joking' about all the shit that plagues us now.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex It just was resonating in that echo chamber louder and louder, and it spread to all these all techbros, many of whom were gamers and how easy it would have been to get caught up in it if they weren't so ludicrously antisemitic...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex When I realized that Bannon started with MMORPG players I realized that it was all in there, we live in Barrens chat now. And the techbros just soak in it longer than the rest of us.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky hardin hshaban alex > "What B*nnon found was a world 'populated by millions of intense young men” who may have been socially maladroit, but were “smart, focused, relatively wealthy, and highly motivated about issues that mattered to them.'" nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-of-warcraft-gold-farming.htmlPermalink On twitter.com
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