I don’t see how one can get confused; those things have very little overlap.

Um…

I like my response more, but yours is pretty good.

They’re infantilized. They’re made to be children, their brains depatterned into sludge by systems that give no options and respond as they want to, to manipulate the user rather than to do what the user wants. All of our technology does this. Modern ux design is fucking violence. You can hear corporations glory in how far this has come. It’s horrible.

It’s not that they need to RTFM. It’s that they need to be challenged and put in a position where their agency is exercised and their choices matter. They need technology to be meaningfully a part if their reality, rather than fantasy bullshit a tech billionaire just kind of decides/does in their direction. They need to heal. They need to reclaim their humanity and ability to apply logic to the world. And then maybe also to RTFM.

And until they do our technology will be violence.

You, as the it department, will be the managers of that violence, the theological police chief of the mystical real of domination and deception that is technology in this paradigm, rather than the infrastructural support mechanic you want to be. It’s why they don’t respect you; because your job isn’t real to them, its just the excuse to intrude upon them ever farther. Your stated philosophy makes you the enemy of all humanity, which is metal as fuck but not good.

Thwy are infantilized. Children who would rather die than grow.

Humidity.

I think the problem I’d that they’re sold on the idea if simple/easy being the highest version of technology, that frictionless and smoothe is better than empowering or secure.

Its the pitch that got them to pick up smart phones, after all. And that’s what needs to change.

Yep

Thats true now though, and the taxes you pay subsidize the thug with the gun.

Nah. I think I’ll do fine with just a gun. Plus whoever finds me can use itvtoo! Gift that keeps on giving.

Somebody will have strong feelings about being hit with this.

They care after the fact but they dont understand and are hostile to the idea of trying to.

It was called Mac os first, child.

You dont improve government by voting. You improve government with a gin ti its head.

Look at the people getting everything they want from governments not what theyre told they want, what they actually want. They didnt vote in a fuvking think.

Also not be unusual ir weird in any way. Serve. Obey. Grind your bones into dust for your masters. Kill yourself when it’s time. Do not be queer do not be trans do not believe in anything do not be disabled do not be nauroatypical do not…

It’s about killing truth and creating a functionally if not literally idealist experience of the world rather by totally obfuscating material reality. That’s what all capitalist technology is for.

I’m pretty loud about most of those criticisms from the left and I still think it would be better than this.

Read that again.

Every car going for a high score.

If you can’t use hegel or spinoza to get a woman into bed, you are compleyely without charm or need to read more theory.