Comment by marcosdumay
1 year ago
Can we drop the "tech" prefix from our neo-feudalism?
Technology is necessarily a progressive force, and feudalism is necessarily a stagnatory conservative structure. The "Tech Supremacy" group is visibly opposed to technology, and it's reflecting more and more on society as they gain power.
> Technology is necessarily a progressive force
Technology is a tool. It is not a culture or a system. In fact, I think state and corporate use of technology for things like surveillance, censorship, frankly pointless jobs that somehow attract VC money, mass propaganda and social media access, data tracking and advertising and behavior modelling to a T, hypothetical pointless-job-destroying-AGI, etc. that are currently in vogue are part of the conservative structure. Technology means moving, but is this outwards or inwards movement?
Conservative people just can't create technology. Technology is always progressive.
It can be progressive towards any amount of things, good or bad. But conservatism requires not developing it.
I think this is conflating conservatism as a political position and conservatism as an anti-development position. Conservatism as a political position has very little to do with actual developmental changes and way more to do with retaining existing political hierarchies. If a new tool came into existence to enforce a existing caste systems (race, class, whatever) then political conservatism would be for this tool.
Consider reading Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills as a great display of this difference in the context of reproductive rights[0].
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/
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No, because it's enabled by the tech industry and tech figures. It's not big pharma or big oil that has anywhere near as much lobbying power or money.
So... "tech industry" is the name we give to the companies investing heavily on stopping technological improvements?
And yes, I know that it is. It's just, can we drop the Orwellianism and change the name?