[just_steve_h]

THIS is what your “disruptive” heroes have bought & paid for. Yes, I’m talking specifically about paulg and his buddies in the VC world, who’ve stepped up their funding & lobbying to levels matching folks like Adolph Coors and Richard Mellon Scaifie. They’re on an ideological vendetta to DESTROY functioning government and leave themselves with near-dictatorial private power, unconstrained by governments anywhere.

These are the folks so many commenters here worship & wish to emulate.

This is the mindless destruction you’ve all been cheering for.

May this be an opportunity for you to reconsider your goals and priorities.

[sadcodemonkey]

Yes, this needs to be pointed out a lot more.

The hero worship is one aspect of a much larger problem, I think, which is that technology culture is almost entirely defined by trends in the startup and VC spaces. It's been that way for at least a decade and a half, by my reckoning.

There is very little genuine technology subculture anymore that is willing to critique dominant trends, raise up our own heroes, and create alternatives.

I'm really hoping that demystifying "disruption" will create a moment of reckoning for technologists.

[edited to say "decade and a half"]