I read a review of the Stewart Brand maintenance book and I'm pretty sure it's a psyop
@ingrid It’s the •actual• Silicon Valley origin story!
“What if hippie ideals, but we made a bunch of money instead?”
@ingrid stewart brand is a corporate consultant so this tracks
@jimmynohands @ingrid if you mean what adam curtis means by the californian ideology none of the corporations follow it. it only exists on places like mastodon
@jimmynohands @ingrid you could maybe argue that valve does
@jimmynohands @ingrid the californian ideology was invented by adam curtis to argue in favor of his own class interest as a member of the british PMC/civil service against any new developments which might be a threat to that power base, which is his whole schtick
@bob @jimmynohands it was coined by Andy Cameron and Richard Barbrook in 1995?
Between this and the abundance nonsense I low-key believe there's a guys-in-a-room-planned-this project to appropriate lefty rhetoric to serve shitty capitalist ideas through dumb thought leader books