“10 years from now this may very well be a key text to understanding how the American tech sector came to embrace some truly heinous reactionary views and became a loyal ally of the authoritarian “new right.” Come for the half-cooked grand unified theories of science, medicine, and political philosophy, stay for casual denigration of minorities and trans people, fawning tributes to authoritarian regimes, and mocking dismissal of any commentary on the turn towards exclusionist white chauvinism in American politics. That’s leaving out other incredible takes like the need for tech to have its own version of Mussolini’s black shirts, to name one example. It would be funny if the hosts and guests were not as powerful and/or wealthy as they are. They’ll mock me for this but all I can say is the audits of their crypto “enterprises” can’t go far enough and someday I really hope they’re subjected to FDR-era marginal tax rates. Bleak!”
PensFan40 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/10/23