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Wtf is with all of this?

Edit: Ok, so from what I've gathered, you guys are basically a million Progressive podcasts' communities hiding under a trenchcoat that you call a Lemmy community...

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[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone really makes a decision about stuff like this, the position of everything (atomic, subatomic whatever) is predetermined by cause and effect (including the stuff in your brain that causes "thoughts" and the hallucination of free will)

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Bazinga brain are people who believe that gadgets and widgets and technology will solve humanities problems because the best technology will rise to the top via the neoliberal marketplace. It's pop science utterly divorced from humanism. Think elon musk or Neil degrasse Tyson, in contrast with scientists that have a sense of compassion for humanity, like Carl Sagan. Scientism wedded to an implicit faith in capitalism

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Scientism wedded to an implicit faith in capitalism

So, more of a tech-oriented capitalist entreprenurial New Athiesque ideology...?

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think there's an aspect of it that relates to whiz-bang aesthetics of tech marketing too. Not just a faith in techno-solutions, but a celebration of the belief that techno-solutioning is really the only thing that makes society/existence improve, and these solutions only come from techno-genius individuals.

It's the evolution of the 'eureka' story into a full mythology of progress. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-archimede/

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's reddit brained science lovers. But not the immortal science of Marxism.

Egh, all the same...

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah basically the IFLS crowd young-sheldon

I'll be honest I've been on this site almost since the start and I never figured out what that one meant until now.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It essentially equates technocrats with some other superficial, vaguely liberal, cultural phenomena (big bang theory or i fucking love science type stuff). Hard to explain but I think it works well as technocracy has a pretense of being scientific and ineffable to the common person, but in reality it's pretty superficial and just constructed so as not to disturb established power structures.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could just say New Atheism's capitalist, tech-bro cousin...

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Or you could say bazinga and be cool like us shrug-outta-hecks

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Techbro marvel-addict shitlibs p much

[–] blight@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The catchphrase of the character Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, who is a fan of Elon Musk

Ah... splains lot...

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Im very jealous that you made it this long without knowing