Anti-intellectualism never works because you are left with stupid people with persecution complexes running things. And they are going to do stupid stuff.
The trouble is that they can really wreck a society in the process.
Naw, dawg. There’s a an insane food chain at work here, and these people know it.
If you hear the term “techno-feudalism” thrown around a lot lately, this is why. The “haves” are now the people who control the IP, that generates the wealth for a select few, that is then redistributed to the people who work for them, and then down to the areas they live and work in. Feudalism used to be abput resources, but now it’s been so abstracted away, it’s just about money. These fuckers saw this coming two decades ago, and the world wasn’t ready because we hadn’t seen anything like this since the Roman era.
Enter, techno-fascists. “I made this thing, so feel lucky you have it.” Types. The Musks, the Bezos’, the Gates’…etc. They got in early, and are now spending all their maxima of capital to make you rent bullshit you never thought you even needed. Now we live in a world where you can’t live without and be relevant. They made this happen.
I question your knowledge of feudalism and the Roman Era but you’ve got the spirit
Idk I feel like it’s pretty dumb itself to not just call them fascists.
Like, sure, you’re going to sideswipe some well meaning “libertarians” with it but fuck 'em. Shouldn’t have stolen “libertarian” from the anarchists, you corporate bootlickers.
What does this mean? You’re boycotting reading blog posts people make via substack?
Surely there are non-nazis who write there as well. I hear people in podcast interviews plug their substack and I’m talking people who side with Palestinians, advocate for free healthcare, and endorse collective bargaining.
That’s a big cost to yourself in exchange for accomplishing nothing, but best of luck I guess.
Not really sure about this bar metaphor - no bar I’ve ever been to has some system to make sure people aren’t Nazis before serving them, but hard to imagine that makes them all “Nazi bars.” And that seems fine - I don’t think I’d want to rely on the political judgment of either bar owners or substack executives to decide who’s worthy of patronizing their business anyway even if it was practical.
I don’t think this weird theory of theirs is all that new. They’ve been saying this kind of thing for decades - see their feelings about “cultural Marxism”, for instance.
I keep seeing people make this argument and I think we all need to realize that different people use social media in different ways.
I moved to Bluesky as well. It’s where my friends went, it’s where the artists and authors I follow went, it’s where some of the bigger names I care to keep up with went.
Feels a little gross, I’m not gonna defend Bluesky or anything, but there are more reasons for the choice.
I do have a mastodon account but have not found myself using it very much. Bluesky just does a better job of replicating what I liked about twitter. Mastodon seems like it was designed by people who had a bunch of problems with how twitter worked and wanted to implement their own different version of a microblogging platform that unfortunately kills a lot of the virality and “one big chatroom” vibe that made twitter so fun. Lemmy does a much better job of replicating what I liked about reddit.
