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> I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism
Ae, and this is not an accident. Capitalists and their lackeys have been scattering toxic individualism seeds around since the counterculture era. Doctorow writes about this too, in the context of Milton Friedman's comments about making sure their ideas were the "ideas lying around":
https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445
#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #MiltonFriedman #ToxicIndividualism
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.
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 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 self-describes that way
2. Crypto-conservatives call them "libertarians", even though they're clearly not, in any meaningful sense of the word
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 self-describes that way
2. Crypto-conservatives call them "libertarians", even though they're clearly not, in any meaningful sense of the word
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
