They all do this. San francisco used to be the old hyperliterate drug fueled counterculture mecca. So they still identify with that, and there’s still like vestigial aesthetic shreds of the old city’s corpse hanging off their beloved Moloch (howl-written in San Francisco). So they see literary allusions and implying they’ve read books as cool. Especially the ones who came up in the 80s and 90s when the old literate hippies could still afford to live there.
But none of them have read more than one book, because one is enough to reference, right? and they didn’t understand it. So mike zuckerberg read ‘snow crash’ and is just doing all the evil shit from ‘snow crash’. Thiel read LOTR. Whoever keeps giving money to ‘ai children’s toy’ read ‘diamond age’.
Because they see is=aught and can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality on an emotional level, being shit heads who fundamentally disrespect the very concept of humanities and have no interiority.
Musk once went to a gala where someone told musk about a cool book series with funny ai ships. He then skimmed the wiki page and assumes he understands the book better than anyone else.
Nah, he straight up said that in Mordor shit worked, while outside it was all “wishy-washy and environmental” (direct quote). Too bad I haven’t saved the link.
Of course, ‘environmental’ is an insult for someone like that bastard.
They all do this. San francisco used to be the old hyperliterate drug fueled counterculture mecca. So they still identify with that, and there’s still like vestigial aesthetic shreds of the old city’s corpse hanging off their beloved Moloch (howl-written in San Francisco). So they see literary allusions and implying they’ve read books as cool. Especially the ones who came up in the 80s and 90s when the old literate hippies could still afford to live there.
But none of them have read more than one book, because one is enough to reference, right? and they didn’t understand it. So mike zuckerberg read ‘snow crash’ and is just doing all the evil shit from ‘snow crash’. Thiel read LOTR. Whoever keeps giving money to ‘ai children’s toy’ read ‘diamond age’.
Because they see is=aught and can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality on an emotional level, being shit heads who fundamentally disrespect the very concept of humanities and have no interiority.
Fucking Mike
I’d have gone with The Veldt but ok
Stephenson is pretty popular there. The shitheaded casually racist voerhoevenesque pithiness makes them feel smart and cool.
These people have an overwhelming predisposition to take a shit on everything. They encountered a thing. They took a shit on it.
Well yeah, they need to be the “alphas” and mark everything they like, especially cultural touchstones, as theirs.
Otherwise, those things would be ours , and that’s Communism! (“Haven’t you read Animal Farm?!” They’ll screech, as they use 1984 as a roadmap.)
They can’t imagine coexistence without zero-sum Thunderdome-esque competition over who gets to take and hold everything away from everyone else.
Yep. Musk read a Culture book, probably Excession. Definitely not Surface Detail. He would have been offended.
No, it was ‘the player of games’ and he thought the main character was just the coolest guy omg you have no idea.
i could have sworn it was ender’s game.
Musk once went to a gala where someone told musk about a cool book series with funny ai ships. He then skimmed the wiki page and assumes he understands the book better than anyone else.
They must think LOTR is an instruction manual in how to become an evil overlord or something
Nah, they just tell themselves everyone who’s against them is an orc.
You know that Thiel explicitly sides with Sauron, as he himself has said in interviews? How would orcs be against him?
“Yeah but…I’d be a good Sauron.”
“That sounds like where Boromir went wrong…”
“Haha ‘Boromir’ huh? What’s their stock ticker? Maybe I can acquire them too…”
Nah, he straight up said that in Mordor shit worked, while outside it was all “wishy-washy and environmental” (direct quote). Too bad I haven’t saved the link.
Of course, ‘environmental’ is an insult for someone like that bastard.
???
That’s… honestly less surprising than I would have expected.