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[–] 51 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

No, because until the dot-com era when "tech bros" first became a thing, a lot of the computing pioneers were leftist/hippie counterculture types. Think MIT AI Lab (RMS), The Homebrew Computer Club (Woz, Captain Crunch), Germany's Chaos Computer Club, etc.

Further reading:

https://bigthink.com/the-present/1960s-counterculture-created-silicon-valley/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Explain the likes of Curtis Yarvin then. There's definitely some techno fascists that go back further than dot-com

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    He said "a lot", he didn't say "all"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I explained myself badly and I think that comment reads as more argumentative than I intended.

    I meant to say that the countercultural world of the early internet created a lot of the deeply problematic culture of the current moment as well as having a bunch of right-on goodness. The seeds of the bad shit were also there in amongst everything that was good.

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