Comment by hshdhdhj4444 3 hours ago
Ironically, your comment probably exemplifies the “Californian Ideology” the parent comment is criticizing.
“Why would you consider good or evil when talking about how you want to spend the overwhelming majority of your productive life”.
I miss when Californian ideology was of the “information wants to be free” and “connecting the people of the world will end tyranny” variety :-( .
Something really changed after the first dotcom bubble. Maybe it was my own youthful naïveté (as someone living in Sacramento desperately wishing I lived in that much cooler city to the west). Maybe it was the last drops of that wave Hunter S Thompson talked about breaking.
What happened: the ideology came into contact with the broader world of unscrupulous actors and human weakness.
We really do have access to all the world's information to a first degree. We also have access to all the world's propaganda, advertising, trolling, and algorithmic optimization of content.
"Information wants to be free" was always a pretty marginal part of the California Ideology[0].
The main difference between now and thirty years ago, is that now they're only "anti-statist" when the state tries to control them personally. They're pro-state when it's being inflicted on their perceived enemies or underlings.
Who is saying not consider doing good? Can’t there be more than one thing you consider?
Do you going into this rant when a coworker asks about vacation days too?