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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you just say that "we" are responsible for something, without more, you are not saying that some people are more responsible than others, and you are absolving those people. To point a finger is to direct attention. If you "point a finger" at everyone, you aren't directing attention -- you're diffusing it, uselessly. There are people who are more and less responsible for what has happened in our politics, and if you want to avoid figuring out who they are, say the sort of thing you just said.
As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when all those other Indians rode over the hill, Who do you mean "we," white man?
Nope.
Yes, that sounds bleak.
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Nobody wants to be the Velvet Underground anymore, even in tech. They want to Get Paid.
Nothing wrong with it, of course. That desire powers the world. But a world of pure rational materialists is creepy, and it’s increasingly where we’re headed.
Not too long ago, finance was contained. There were partnerships, where people held risk, and so acted prudently. And our media, our art, was not infected with low cost shit designed to make maximum money for the shareholders of media conglomerates.
Would Robert Evans’ movies get made today? Maybe as indies, at shit budgets. Coppola did Apocalypse Now a mere 38 years ago. Today, the only movie 1/4 that size likely to be made has to have a dozen Marvel characters in it.
We’re crass. Plasticky, crappy, and dull. I can’t blame that on Newt. I blame it on materialism and lack of imagination.
