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Comment by electriclove

6 days ago

HN has many of those who have gone through the indoctrination process in college that he describes in the essay.

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Barrin92  6 days ago

It is extremely silly and in bad faith to accuse anyone to disagree with of indoctrination, but it's even sillier when every single tech bro is basically the same person, reads the same books, repeats the same topics, on the same day using the same phraseology.

You could have literally taken this essay from PG posted it on the timeline of any single one of his colleagues and you couldn't even tell who wrote it. The "anti woke" economy, if you look at the numbers accounts of that flavor do on Youtube, Twitter et al. is a magnitude if not larger than what, according to them, cannot be criticized.

The phrase "woke mind virus" also featured in this essay, is more of a literal meme or mind virus in the Dawkins sense of that term than anything it attempts to address. The lack of awareness to accuse others of indoctrination when you write an essay so generic that you can autocomplete the last 90% after reading the first 10% chatgpt style is quite something.