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causticusAre the progressive fanatics who run most of the major Silicon Valley tech companies in self-destruct mode? From P:
Some finer analysis here may hearken back to the "Social Threefolding" concept I laid out in the previous post. I think what we're seeing now regarding the cumulative effects from last 3 years or so of hyper-progressive ideological fervor, is the Cultural Sphere beginning to assert itself over both the Political and Economic Spheres. And this is not necessarily by top-down conspiratorial design. What we are seeing is a cultural movement that's become consumed by a moral panic, or rather a cluster[expletive] of interlocking moral panics. These are storms not so different from weather systems; they gain momentum, wreak their havoc and then eventually exhaust themselves of energy and die down. Anyone remotely schooled in esoteric might understand the idea that emotions are just like weather patterns.
Silicon Valley has been collectively engaging in precisely the type of cathartic emotional outburst we can see in the video above. Their progressive ideology is little different in character from that of a religion; in this case a very dogmatic, evangelical, and fanatical one. Low-T Left Coast bugman tech CEOs like Jack Conte of Patreon are men of deep faith; we're now at the point where the deep religiosity of such people supercede their pragmatic or even economic concerns. From a business perspective this spells nothing but ruin; one cannot run a for-profit business when their religious motives are in the driver's seat. Of course, many of these tech companies don't even break even on their balance sheets; they stay alive as long as their billionaire investors are pumping money into the company coffers. A deep-pocked investor may have motives that go beyond simple profitability, but only so much. In the media business there have been plenty of examples of publications that never managed to make any money, yet the investor(s) kept the media outlet alive for vanity or propagandistic purposes. I'm not sure this "business" model will work for tech companies in the long run however. A company that keeps making dumb financial decisions and losing money/customers, will eventually find itself in the corporate graveyard. I predict that when the moral panic(s) die down, many of these hyped-up tech companies will be history and we'll be seeing a sizable group of hyper-religious tech workers and entrepreneurs grovelling for jobs at companies that are actually solvent and have a reliable, realistic business model.
At the end of the day, the Cultural Sphere can only run the Economic sphere in a Theocratic system. When the people are allowed to choose what to believe and not believe, it's impossible for Theocratic system to assert any kind of monopolistic power over the general public. This whole mess we're seeing now is going to crash and burn sooner or later.
This is yet another example of: Get Woke, Go Broke.
It's almost beyond comprehension the seismic [expletive]-storm that Jack and his band of social justice idiots at Patreon unleashed on their own dumb asses. Just another reminder that the lunatics on the left will always wind their way to utter self-destruction if left unchecked. Consider yourself checked (and checkmated) all you [expletives] at Patreon, Facebook, Twitter and beyond. You've issued your last shadowbanning denial, and you [expletive-verb'd] your company and your employees over in the process.
Some finer analysis here may hearken back to the "Social Threefolding" concept I laid out in the previous post. I think what we're seeing now regarding the cumulative effects from last 3 years or so of hyper-progressive ideological fervor, is the Cultural Sphere beginning to assert itself over both the Political and Economic Spheres. And this is not necessarily by top-down conspiratorial design. What we are seeing is a cultural movement that's become consumed by a moral panic, or rather a cluster[expletive] of interlocking moral panics. These are storms not so different from weather systems; they gain momentum, wreak their havoc and then eventually exhaust themselves of energy and die down. Anyone remotely schooled in esoteric might understand the idea that emotions are just like weather patterns.
Silicon Valley has been collectively engaging in precisely the type of cathartic emotional outburst we can see in the video above. Their progressive ideology is little different in character from that of a religion; in this case a very dogmatic, evangelical, and fanatical one. Low-T Left Coast bugman tech CEOs like Jack Conte of Patreon are men of deep faith; we're now at the point where the deep religiosity of such people supercede their pragmatic or even economic concerns. From a business perspective this spells nothing but ruin; one cannot run a for-profit business when their religious motives are in the driver's seat. Of course, many of these tech companies don't even break even on their balance sheets; they stay alive as long as their billionaire investors are pumping money into the company coffers. A deep-pocked investor may have motives that go beyond simple profitability, but only so much. In the media business there have been plenty of examples of publications that never managed to make any money, yet the investor(s) kept the media outlet alive for vanity or propagandistic purposes. I'm not sure this "business" model will work for tech companies in the long run however. A company that keeps making dumb financial decisions and losing money/customers, will eventually find itself in the corporate graveyard. I predict that when the moral panic(s) die down, many of these hyped-up tech companies will be history and we'll be seeing a sizable group of hyper-religious tech workers and entrepreneurs grovelling for jobs at companies that are actually solvent and have a reliable, realistic business model.
At the end of the day, the Cultural Sphere can only run the Economic sphere in a Theocratic system. When the people are allowed to choose what to believe and not believe, it's impossible for Theocratic system to assert any kind of monopolistic power over the general public. This whole mess we're seeing now is going to crash and burn sooner or later.
This is yet another example of: Get Woke, Go Broke.
