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nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 This is a theme that runs through a lot of the documentary series Adam Curtis does too. The Power of Nightmares and The Trap: What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom are two great examples.

This is a major theme in All Watches Over by Machines of Loving Grace too. Although I think that one is overly influenced by Fred Turner, and his throwing out of counterculture hacker babies with the Silicon Valley capitalist bathwater.

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Strypey 2y ago

nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 Sadly, Turner's narrative has been very popular with crypto-conservatives(1) who use it to dismiss the entire software freedom movement as Peter Thiel style neo-reactionaries(2).

1. centre-right neoliberals who call themselves "liberals" in the US, and "leftists" elsewhere, since "liberal" is mainly a term of abuse outside the US and nobody else self-describes that way

2. Crypto-conservatives call them "libertarians" even though they're clearly not, in any meaningful sense of the word

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