Balaji Srinivasa regularly deleted comments he did not like from his blog. I don't mean people being obscene or even rude, just anything that offered the slightest challenge to whatever he had written. I had it happen to me a couple times, naively thinking it was some glitch, before I realized it was him just doing what he does.
"Civilization is what you build by staying when leaving would be easier." The abdication of care as the glue that holds civilization together. I've been writing a piece on Ishiguro's novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, focused on how the author's particular brand of literary feminism is all about the principle of quiet care. His characters are the most ordinary people, or clones with a conscience. The magistrate in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians recognizing his moral imperative, the survivors in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 415 reciting literature when all the books have been burned.
"In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions."
I hate these mofos so much. They use our system to accumulate vast wealth (demonstrating how well the system works for them) and then when they can’t control politics as much as they feel entitled to they whine like spoiled children and declare it’s all broken. There’s not even the slightest inkling that maybe they should give back to the system that gave the so much.
“ Balaji has confused having everything you want with having anything worth wanting.”
To take your argument to the logical endpoint beyond the social, which you so brilliantly cover, these wealthy people who leave and not stay and fight, will ultimately lose everything. They depend for their very life on our planet and it’s free services that allow us to exist. Rather than leaving, they could use their wealth and brain power (although they mostly operate out of their wheelhouse), to stay and help us address the critical environmental issues, like global warming, that our politicians and their wealthy backers circumvent. If they don’t help everyone, they will ultimately lose everything. I’m sure they want to continue to live comfortably and safely, like the rest of us do.
Not sure why this tech bro fantasy is worth the ink you're using to write about it. Rich people's circle jerk really. They made a movie about exactly that, Mountainhead.
Balaji Srinivasa regularly deleted comments he did not like from his blog. I don't mean people being obscene or even rude, just anything that offered the slightest challenge to whatever he had written. I had it happen to me a couple times, naively thinking it was some glitch, before I realized it was him just doing what he does.
Technocratic collectivism...such a frightening and bleak *weltanschauung*...product of an impoverished spirit and absence of any humaneness.
"Civilization is what you build by staying when leaving would be easier." The abdication of care as the glue that holds civilization together. I've been writing a piece on Ishiguro's novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, focused on how the author's particular brand of literary feminism is all about the principle of quiet care. His characters are the most ordinary people, or clones with a conscience. The magistrate in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians recognizing his moral imperative, the survivors in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 415 reciting literature when all the books have been burned.
Thank you for insights wrapped in eloquence.
"In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions."
I hate these mofos so much. They use our system to accumulate vast wealth (demonstrating how well the system works for them) and then when they can’t control politics as much as they feel entitled to they whine like spoiled children and declare it’s all broken. There’s not even the slightest inkling that maybe they should give back to the system that gave the so much.
“ Balaji has confused having everything you want with having anything worth wanting.”
To take your argument to the logical endpoint beyond the social, which you so brilliantly cover, these wealthy people who leave and not stay and fight, will ultimately lose everything. They depend for their very life on our planet and it’s free services that allow us to exist. Rather than leaving, they could use their wealth and brain power (although they mostly operate out of their wheelhouse), to stay and help us address the critical environmental issues, like global warming, that our politicians and their wealthy backers circumvent. If they don’t help everyone, they will ultimately lose everything. I’m sure they want to continue to live comfortably and safely, like the rest of us do.
Not sure why this tech bro fantasy is worth the ink you're using to write about it. Rich people's circle jerk really. They made a movie about exactly that, Mountainhead.