Along with the Rest of America, Tech Moves to the Right
America’s political sensibilities are moving to the right, along with many other countries like Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and that’s sad, but it’s a choice that the people of the United States are free to make.
My problem isn’t so much that we’re surrounded by a growing number of poorly educated racists, but that, in addition to the “contemptible fools,” to quote Elon Musk, or the “deplorables,” to quote Hillary Clinton, we live among a much smaller group of billionaires who couldn’t care less about the well-being of the common American, much less the environment, and who are dominating public policy in Washington.
Worst of all, Donald Trump, a convicted felon, adjudicated sex abuser, and indicted traitor to his country, is at the heart of this transition. I think many people, myself included, would be better equipped to deal with this if a criminal sociopath weren’t at the movement’s very core.
Marc Andreessen, who’s been at the forefront of the tech industry since the dawn of the Internet 30 years ago, donated $4.5 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and in the video below he explains why.
What we need to learn from the content of the meme here is that the majority of American voters simply don’t care that their leader is a convicted felon, and that he committed treason against our country.
Most decent people support this. But guess what? Overall, in the United States right now, it’s a minority position.
One thing we can observe about Aristotle’s writings from our modern standpoint is that we got a whole bunch of stuff wrong, and the quote at left is a good example.
The position of many of today’s self-described “patriots” is offered at left. Apparently, the United States has reached a point at which we have to make a choice between:
If you’re having trouble defining exactly what’s going wrong in the United States right now, you are to be forgiven. Yet, the words at left may be of service.
The meme here came from a reader, whom I advise: If you have liars, haters, cheaters and disloyal people in your life, you don’t need prayers, and you don’t need a new year. You need a new life. Be brave. Seek it out.
At left is a good example of what I mean when I say, “It hasn’t been a good couple of hundred years for philosophers.”
I’ve been a fan of Sartre since my teen years. Maybe that, at last in part, explains why girls weren’t particularly attracted to me.
