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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
So, more of a tech-oriented capitalist entreprenurial New Athiesque ideology...?
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/
It's reddit brained science lovers. But not the immortal science of Marxism.
Egh, all the same...
Yeah basically the IFLS crowd
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.