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by dontlikeyoueith 446 days ago
Most of them don't value hard science either.
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barbrook wrote an essay about this 30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

Still on the nose.

Incredibly prescient. This quote from 2011 really sums it up:

> The original promise of the Californian Ideology, was that the computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destiny. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or to change.