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kontextmaschine:

The Old Internet I Loved

What I Thought It Was:

A World Where Established Orders Were Rendered Superfluous, and In the Absence Of Coordinating Forces, A Congenial Culture Arose From The Free Interplay Of All the World’s Diverse Peoples

What It Was, Apparently:

A World So Hegemonically Dominated by People In a Similar Class and Cultural Position That Our Interests Were Simply Uncritically Adopted as Local Cultural Norms, Which Could Then Be Misread as the Sensibility of the World Entire

So uh I guess it was that second one I was fond of the whole time and saw as our salvation from a broken world?

“Welcome to the Internet, here’s where we talk about libertarianism, and here’s where we talk about computers but also libertarianism.”

The funny thing is this is the exact same arc television, radio, and newspapers went through in their time.