{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The most interesting thing going on now in terms of rightism, Greater Cascadia, and the intersection of the two is the conquest...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/70458723207/", "html": "<p>The most interesting thing going on now in terms of rightism, Greater Cascadia, and the intersection of the two is the conquest of SF by Silicon Valley, and their increasing rightist alignment.</p>\n\n<p>Among other things, this means \u201cdonglegate\u201d and that BS is significant, not because SRS is conquering tech but because it isn\u2019t. Moldbug, for all his high profile, contributes nothing novel but his \u201cneocameralism\u201d reformulation of the Divine Right of Kings in corporate shareholder idiom, but that\u2019s exactly the idiom of VC and startup culture.</p>\n\n<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s run by people who read their SF and know worldbuilding and the intentional construction of societies. A while back Google decided to hire a lot of non-STEM Ivy Leaguers, pay them equivalent wages, and bring them on main campus, and have them do customer service gruntwork that could\u2019ve been outsourced. </p>\n\n<p>For one, now they\u2019ve got a cadre from which to cultivate PR, government relations, and other political functions. For two a lot of the hires were smart women. I forget what color badges this group has but they\u2019re called \u201cthe pretty ones\u201d. After all, not all the techs are going to stay forever satisfied with the armies of Korean prostitutes imported to the AAMPs on the edges of the Valley.</p>"}