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Jan Vorisek’s Devotion Strategy
- Here we see the shift from cruel optimism to stupid pessimism, or call it fashionable pessimism, or simply cynicism. It’s very easy to object to the utopian turn by invoking some poorly-defined but seemingly omnipresent reality principle. Well-off people do this all the time.
from Dystopias Now | Commune by Kim Stanley Robinson
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- Here no doubt one has to avoid Berlant’s “cruel optimism,” which is perhaps thinking and saying that things will get better without doing the work of imagining how.
from Dystopias Now | Commune by Kim Stanley Robinson
Keely Adler added
- If e/acc is an attempt to rebrand tech zealotry as an apotheosis of moral goodness, it is also, as Silicon Valley grieves the realization that it is no longer seen as an unbridled force for good, a form of denial and bargaining—one last plea for salvation as the walls close in. If it happens to result in the end of humanity, so be it. As Land’s lat... See more
from Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs who say greed is good—even if it kills us all by Ali Breland
Mary Martin and added