A predictable meme from the tech-industry wise men who can’t stop telling you how unpredictable they are.
How original and independent, these many observations! How clever of the gimlet-eyed crowd retweeting these thoughts!Some of the more self-aware among this mass of bold and heterodox thinkers have adopted, in their characteristically ambivalent way,As is often the case with the memes adopted by the would-be intellectuals of the tech right, Andreessen and his ilk have been treating this silly bit as a grand key to understanding American politics and discourse.
I’m going to dissent here and say that, while I agree the meme gestures toward a real phenomenon, I don’t think it’s a useful “heuristic,” a groundbreaking critique, or frankly even a novel observation.
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