"Without tech, the ‘Cathedral’ would have chewed them (and anyone else) up and spit them out."
"The mystery of the cathedral is that all the modern world’s legitimate and prestigious intellectual institutions, even though they have no central organizational connection, behave in many ways as if they were a single organizational structure.…
"Without tech, the ‘Cathedral’ would have chewed them (and anyone else) up and spit them out."
"The mystery of the cathedral is that all the modern world’s legitimate and prestigious intellectual institutions, even though they have no central organizational connection, behave in many ways as if they were a single organizational structure."
- Curtis Yarvin, A brief explanation of the cathedral
And if thou gaze long into an abyss of them-ification, etc.
Banana peeling (without malice) aside, it seems likely that people ascribe a collective agency to Facebook, Twitter, etc. because, for all the behind the scenes complexity, those organizations present themselves to the world in the singular. There is one facebook.com, one twitter.com: whether a user is banned from either of those platforms--one of the sharper, more relevant ends of the agency conversation--is a binary state that exists irrespective of internal dissenting voices (voices that, however dissenting they may be, tacitly consent to the overall behavior of the organization by virtue of retaining their membership).
"Without tech, the ‘Cathedral’ would have chewed them (and anyone else) up and spit them out."
"The mystery of the cathedral is that all the modern world’s legitimate and prestigious intellectual institutions, even though they have no central organizational connection, behave in many ways as if they were a single organizational structure."
- Curtis Yarvin, A brief explanation of the cathedral
And if thou gaze long into an abyss of them-ification, etc.
Banana peeling (without malice) aside, it seems likely that people ascribe a collective agency to Facebook, Twitter, etc. because, for all the behind the scenes complexity, those organizations present themselves to the world in the singular. There is one facebook.com, one twitter.com: whether a user is banned from either of those platforms--one of the sharper, more relevant ends of the agency conversation--is a binary state that exists irrespective of internal dissenting voices (voices that, however dissenting they may be, tacitly consent to the overall behavior of the organization by virtue of retaining their membership).