I've been thinking on this a lot over the past few months, and I think one way to get out of this on a personal level is a re-commitment to the present and what is in front of you, and a rejection of digital space as a whole. The internet as it was is dead and I don't know how politically useful it is anymore in it's current iteration.
I've been thinking on this a lot over the past few months, and I think one way to get out of this on a personal level is a re-commitment to the present and what is in front of you, and a rejection of digital space as a whole. The internet as it was is dead and I don't know how politically useful it is anymore in it's current iteration.
The movement as described in this essay is primarily a digital creation and it would probably be simplest within productive spaces to reject this type of attitude as a digital creation, and to spend most of our time and energy existing in the real world away from the dogmatism of this way of thinking. There is no way of avoiding it as the world now is digital, but I think it's possible to carve out life outside of that arena, and it is probably essential now to re-focus our efforts toward each other in real space in ways that benefit our communities and the people around us.
I do think that this culture is also the most ingrained in academia and the university, where it’s enforced from the top down by administrators who threaten professors with expulsion if they don’t toe certain political lines, and the bottom up by new crops of students each year who become more militant in their views. This essay touches on this phenomenon in the context of working class and nonwhite people who enter academia and find this largely upper middle class neurotic mindset impossible to adhere to. When the students who enforce the dogma described in this essay graduate, many enter sectors of the workforce which employ a large HR workforce which enforces the same culture, ie tech, media, and healthcare….so yes, while the internet may be the birth of this way of thinking, I think the way its enforcers as a distinct class of people with distinct class interests have infiltrated the heirarchical corporate structures of the US and Western Europe complicate the question of “where do we go from here.”
I've been thinking on this a lot over the past few months, and I think one way to get out of this on a personal level is a re-commitment to the present and what is in front of you, and a rejection of digital space as a whole. The internet as it was is dead and I don't know how politically useful it is anymore in it's current iteration.
The movement as described in this essay is primarily a digital creation and it would probably be simplest within productive spaces to reject this type of attitude as a digital creation, and to spend most of our time and energy existing in the real world away from the dogmatism of this way of thinking. There is no way of avoiding it as the world now is digital, but I think it's possible to carve out life outside of that arena, and it is probably essential now to re-focus our efforts toward each other in real space in ways that benefit our communities and the people around us.
I do think that this culture is also the most ingrained in academia and the university, where it’s enforced from the top down by administrators who threaten professors with expulsion if they don’t toe certain political lines, and the bottom up by new crops of students each year who become more militant in their views. This essay touches on this phenomenon in the context of working class and nonwhite people who enter academia and find this largely upper middle class neurotic mindset impossible to adhere to. When the students who enforce the dogma described in this essay graduate, many enter sectors of the workforce which employ a large HR workforce which enforces the same culture, ie tech, media, and healthcare….so yes, while the internet may be the birth of this way of thinking, I think the way its enforcers as a distinct class of people with distinct class interests have infiltrated the heirarchical corporate structures of the US and Western Europe complicate the question of “where do we go from here.”
yes!!!!