[mindcrime]

The sky isn't falling, and technological advancement still represents a key element of improving the human condition. The actions of a few bad actors, as dismaying as they are, don't indicate that everyone in tech has malicious intentions or anything.

We should strive to do better than systems of governance that involve an implicit (or explicit) threat of violence in order to coerce people into behaving the way we want. And we have no moral standing to use violence in that way to begin with.

Read lots of awesome books, and listen to great music. But don't let anybody else define for you what constitutes "awesome books" or "great music". Take suggestions and hints and recommendations from others, weight them as you see fit, but in the end: "to thine own self be true".

In the words of the immortal Aleister Crowley "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law".