[rektide]

> For reasons that are complicated and that I don't fully understand, the software development community in the eighties and nineties developed a culture of anti-capitalism and liberal values that put technology on a pedestal for its own sake. Open source good; commercial software bad. Free software good; commercial software bad.

I think a lot of techies believe there is massive untapped potential in information technology, and to some degree that the commercialism occludes humanity from gaining a fair, reasonable, and developing perspective on how computation and communication happens in the modern world.

We see the world not as being well served by the software and services about, but as being made helpless, as suffering real pain, and never being given the chance to understand or grapple with issues we encounter. The current system is not a fair shake, and does not permit the formation of human will. Computing technology is too amazing, humans have too much awesome potential, to be bounded by such a finite fixed tragic end, as all this. It's long been time to stop playing with shadows on the wall, & embarking on a more honest means to make accessible the tiniest yet most amazing empowering bicycle-of-the-mind creation of our era is a journey we feel deeply moved to start upon.