I read a review of the Stewart Brand maintenance book and I'm pretty sure it's a psyop
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
@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?
@ingrid You're not alone in that view, in Žižek's Violence there is a section (chapter?) that talks about this in terms of World Social Forum having migrated to Davos while selling out basic tenants (and the complicity of hacker culture, which Brand is adjacent to I guess)
@ingrid dear can we talk privately
@ingrid It’s the •actual• Silicon Valley origin story!
“What if hippie ideals, but we made a bunch of money instead?”