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Originally Posted by dead_battery

you're also confirming my suspicion that post modern cynicism is not world weary wisdom based on any kind of realism at all, but conservatism that wants to preserve magical thinking and shut down any possibility of change whatsoever by always positing that it's not worth knowing about.

i'd rather face the inevitable movement of progress and make whatever moves are available, the fact that i can't magically defeat possibilities of misuse and like, reality, makes me more realistic than anyone who can't think/keep up with change because they're secretly preserving a ridiculous optimism through disavowing it in cynicism.

i mean, of COURSE lawyers and power structures will seek to capitalise on this stuff as much as they possibly can.

being that post-modernism isn't an era but an attitude, i'm not really a post-modern-- i'm a late modern. i support progress, science, knowledge, the project of the enlightement, etc. however, seeing the history of progress and modernity i am not naive enough to think that progress is a cure-all-- that is just pig ignorance at this point.

progress always brings its own new set of problems. people who actually work in science see and know this. the union of concerned scientists wasn't born in a vacuum. scientists also know that their work gets pimped by politicians and corporatocrats-- all the fucking time. many scientists today in fact embrace that and have no problem collecting the big paychecks.

go forward, but remain vigilant.