Der Torment Nexus und der Tod der Satire

Paul Graham Raven schreibt i über eine Beobachtung, die einen so wohl staunen, als auch erzittern lässt.

When I saw that someone had announced a shift in technological influence from Star Trek to Hitchhiker’s Guide, I was all set to spend a day cheerleading the mainstreaming of an observation I wish I could have made so succinctly.

Then I actually read the announcement, and realised that this was being proposed as a positive development—a “graduation”, no less.
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I remarked the other day (in response to a Kevin Kelly bit that was so tin-eared it felt like self-parody) that techie culture, so proudly and obsessively focussed on rationality, has reached the point of enantiodromic inversion, and become something quite literally mad.

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