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DDR born Gen Xer hot takes from today:

Gorby was actually alright cause he let the people vote for โ€œnone of the above.โ€

DDR bad cause your bachelorโ€™s thesis topic was assigned to you and you couldnโ€™t choose where you worked.

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If anyone didnโ€™t know (and probably to no oneโ€™s surprise), the soft drink leninade is not made by a company with any kind of radical politics, itโ€™s just a gimmick

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It is a canon event every baby leftist has to go through.

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Are you calling me a baby

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So did hexbear federate with us or what?

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Just about to finish reading โ€˜Survival of the richest by douglas rushkoffโ€™, itโ€™s a decent contemporary tech critique but oh boy i have to put down the book sometimes because of the cringe idealist comments made by the author. Really makes me appreciate Lenin writing style more and more.

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because of the cringe idealist comments made by the author

Any bangers?

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He mentions capitalism a lot during the book (also some subtle anti-china rethoric like any self respecting liberal of course) but he not once mentions anything related about relations of production, he just criticizes the infinite growth property of capitalism and ties it a lot with the contemporary tech industry. The usual shallow criticism coming from libs who know about capitalism just from the osmosis of living on it and havenโ€™t really made any real study of it.

This paragraph is just peak pseudo-intellectual liberalism lmao, not technically his take but there is no debunking of the comment later which makes me think he actually believes it

  • Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead thought cybernetics would prevent fascism. For where fascism depends on the fragmenting of knowledge and oversimplified direction from above, cybernetics would engender holism and serve as โ€œa kind of vaccination against fragmentation.โ€ - ๐Ÿ’€
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Thanks!

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