Great piece, but... there is definitely a "them". There always is them, aka "The Clerics". And what makes them "Them" is not a common goal - for each one of them has a self-serving goal - but rather common means to whatever their self-serving goal is. And the means are usually a combination of tactics in the averall strategy of "shaping …
Great piece, but... there is definitely a "them". There always is them, aka "The Clerics". And what makes them "Them" is not a common goal - for each one of them has a self-serving goal - but rather common means to whatever their self-serving goal is. And the means are usually a combination of tactics in the averall strategy of "shaping and controlling the narrative".
In the current Tech universe, The Clerics are not just the Zurckerbergs and Dorseys but (and foremost) the VCs who inflate the tech narrative, just as some Clerics of Science like Fauci are currently doing with the pandameic. This interview with Ben Horowitz is an example of how the Tech Clerics spew their self-serving narrative. https://sotonye.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-tomorrow-an-interview.
Great piece, but... there is definitely a "them". There always is them, aka "The Clerics". And what makes them "Them" is not a common goal - for each one of them has a self-serving goal - but rather common means to whatever their self-serving goal is. And the means are usually a combination of tactics in the averall strategy of "shaping and controlling the narrative".
In the current Tech universe, The Clerics are not just the Zurckerbergs and Dorseys but (and foremost) the VCs who inflate the tech narrative, just as some Clerics of Science like Fauci are currently doing with the pandameic. This interview with Ben Horowitz is an example of how the Tech Clerics spew their self-serving narrative. https://sotonye.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-tomorrow-an-interview.