Keep Politics out of Technology!

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In this video, I would like to discuss what I consider perhaps the most cringe and boomerpilled take with respect to technology. And I hear it all the time among people, even who might follow my channel. I'm watching you. Um, and here's what it is. Why are people politicizing technology? Technology isn't inherently political. Get get politics out of Linux. It doesn't have anything to do with this. Get out of here. Okay, that is one of the most boomer takes of all time and I'd like to discuss why.

Now, we all know the context in which which this is often used, usually in the context of hgiws. I I might talk about them at the end of the video, but let's think about how inane this this statement is that that technology isn't political. Now, of course, in some sense, that's literally true. Like, it's true that technology itself, let's say, for example, so here's a book, right? uh this is produced with technology. A printing press is technology. Uh printing presses do not have political opinions. They do not vote in elections. They are not inherently political. But anyone with their head on straight will realize that technology no matter what it is has political ramifications.

So in the case of the printing press, right, this is actually this is a case that even boomers will consent to because I think you know the meme history goes back when the printing press was invented uh you know that basically meant the downfall of the Catholic Church in a lot of countries because that uh helped set off the Protestant Reformation and that caused all the you know upheaval after that. All right, technologies have political ramifications. And in fact, um, if you could preempt a lot of people at the time could see the political ramifications of that. But even more general than that, okay, let's put it this. When I'm looking for wisdom when it comes to uh uh the ramifications of technology in society and politics, I like to turn to a certain book. Now, you all probably know what book it is. I'll I'll tell you the first line of it. The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. That's right. I consult Uncle Ted and Uncle Ted in his manifesto had a very excellent point that he makes where he says boomer conservatives are hypocrites. I mean, he doesn't use the term boomer conservative. I mean, he says conservative, but whatever.

Boomer conservatives, this is a very boomer thing to do if you're a conservative. Boomer conservatives are hypocrites fundamentally because on one side they're against degeneracy. They think for example uh mass divorce the fact that so many marriages more than uh 50% end in divorce that's a bad thing. Uh promiscuity conservatives of course think is a bad thing or um you know cheating on your spouse uh degeneracy in the the media something like that. Those are all bad things according to conservatives. Um but at the same time conservatives are pro technology. You might be thinking what wait why is that hypocrisy? We'll explain in a second, but you know, conservatives style themselves as being pro- industry, pro uh market, pro business, stuff like that. Oh, we're not like those silly libtards. We're not like AOC. We believe in like, you know, we took economics, blah blah blah. That that's such a boomer thing to say, lit legitimately. So why why is that hypocritical? Okay. The thing that Kazinski notes is that technology, even technology that is invented for no political reason, only to make your life maybe more efficient, in his case, large-scale technology, um causes social degeneracy because what happens, think of the converse, okay? Um if you go to random tribes in Brazil or New Guinea or something like that, think about the kind of social conventions they'll have there. They might be different from ours, but they are invariably going to be highly conservative. Uh you're not going to have, you know, everyone just not caring about their children, leaving their family, sleeping around. Now, of course, some cultures have a different way of doing marriage, but in general, uh the idea that, you know, the greatest good is people just going out there and doing what they just finding myself in the universe, that is a a narcissism that's unique to Western societies. So the question is why you know why do traditional why do uh you know technologically non-advanced societies why are they all so conservative? Well, it's because it's very easy to see the ramifications of what you do in a society that isn't very technological. Because if you can't, you know, if you can't pay for your family, if you're not going to go with your responsibilities, well, the consequences are immediate and sometimes they're deadly. Sometimes, you know, if you if you you can't go to school for 20 years to get brainwashed cuz you you got to feed yourself, right? In societies like that. That's not how it is now. A lot of people ask themselves, why do western society why have western societies gotten so degenerate? You know, or or I guess if you're a leftist, why have Western societies gotten so progressive? Or for them, well, they wouldn't even say like western societies do anything good, but they, you know, why why is there this magical occult force called progress? And wow, only a hundred years ago we were giving women suffrage and now we're at child drag queens. Here's why this is a good thing. Um, so why why does that happen? Well, it happens because technology has put us we we are basically spoiled rich kids in in developed western societies because we get so much stuff and we can afford to be degenerate. You can afford to uh abandon your family and ah the you know welfare state will take care of them a little bit. You don't really need to work that much for them. Uh you could cheat on your husband or wife. Uh you can you know go to school for 20 years and get brainwashed and live it up and get drunk all the time. That's something that it's easier to do in our society. Why is it? Because of technology. Because we have the ability to uh export the consequences of our behavior into the future more and more, you know. So either we have to pay for them later or someone else does, someone else has to pick up the trash. Because we can do that, we have become more socially degenerate. I mean really the problem of modern society in some degrees is the fact that we now because of technology, we have this ability to do whatever we want. And the consequences we don't have to think about them until later. Uh but we we haven't become disciplined enough. We like oh I like the ability to do whatever I want and like have no consequences for what I do. But um anyway so technology what I'm trying to say what Uncle Ted is trying to say is that technology is always it always has political ramifications. Um now a lot of the times of course when people are talking about Linux in particular um they're talking about they're they're upset oh Linux is being politicized which is just on its face a stupid thing because Linux or more I mean really people are talking about GNU/ Linux GNU the GNU project overtly was started as a political thing okay it has political goals that that was its its purpose is to maximize what the the uh GNU project perceives as being uh user freedom. So that means the ability to look at source code to change it to give it to other people to do whatever you want with it. Okay, that that is a political goal. And if that politics of Linux and of course Linux is part of this because you know when Lionus Torvald put the GPL on Linux, it is a part of this as well. And if there was no political side to Linux, Linux would not exist. Okay, Richard Stallman would be an exec at Windows or at at Microsoft. Okay, he would be running Windows right now. Maybe he would have a Mac device or something like that. No one in the universe would care about Linux desktop environments. Oh, let's Libra boot our computers. Let's compare uh, you know, uh Wayland with whatever. Who who cares? Like no one cares. This is Linux exists for political reasons. So it makes no sense to talk about get politics out of Linux. Uh, and of course these same people, mind you, will often they'll get upset when they see the corporate takeover of the Linux Foundation. They will say things like, "Oh, wait. Microsoft is b Microsoft and Google are buying into the Linux Foundation. They're starting to run the board." Stuff like this. And well, if you want to troll them, you can just ask them. Well, who cares? Technology isn't political. It's not going to make a difference. Doesn't matter what happens, right? But of course, everyone knows that it matters. It does matter if you know corporations or even worse than corporations, nos. Corporations, the good thing about corporations is at least they pretend to care about money, which which is something that you can always predict what they're going to do because they're looking after money. But NOS's, they will just do any devious political thing. They're the they're the real problem, I think, in the world nowadays. I mean, corporations are only bad in so far as they imitate NOS's. Um, but anyway, so what what what context? Let let me actually step back for a second. So people who are complaining about Linux being political or Linux becoming quote unquote political, they're really always complaining about one thing. And everyone knows what they're complaining about. They're complaining about SJWs. Okay? And the thing about SJWs is they see the reason they have taken over so much of Linux is first off because people in Linux are weirdos anyway, so they're going to be over represented. But the reason they have taken over so much of Linux and a lot of other things in popular culture is because SJWs, it's not that they're so deeply, you know, committed to ideological premises and they like winning arguments and respecting people's views and, you know, they would never misrepresent people and stuff like that. It's not because of any of that. Obviously, it's because SJWs correctly realize that everything is political. Everything is technology is political. um uh every pull request could be interpreted as political, right? Um it's all a big battlefield. And I'm not saying that like every little thing, you know, uh something like what window manager you use on Linux, that's not really political. But if you compare, you know, using some random window manager that some guy wrote, that's probably a better choice than, you know, using some corporate produced desktop environment like I don't know, Gnome or something like that. Now again that's mostly a personal choice but there can be political ramifications to choosing one or the other but SJWs to their credit and this is not just to their credit but this is the fact that they win so often is because they correctly realize the political nature of everything and their doofus opponents refuse to. They boomer conservatives will say things like, "Wait, why you got to politicize thing? Why can't Why can't you my enemies who want to replace me? Why can't you we all just be friends? Why can't we sit at the same table and talk?" Well, they're not interested in that. They're interested in winning. That's that's it. And once you realize that, I mean, you can't even be mad at them. I I'm not The reason I don't do videos on SGWs is not because I dislike them. It's because there's no arguing to do against them. they are making good decisions for what the good tactical decisions and there's nothing I can't front that the people who are worth complaining on are the people who sit down and try and uh talk rationally to people who don't care like I mean especially the thing is nowadays in technology if you are a white male in technology whether you like it or not your existence is political okay any position you have that is political okay they have made that political So, you best start believing in political technology cuz you're living in it. All right, so that's it. Stop stop with the boomer takes, okay? Stop with the at least the cold ones. All right, see you guys next time.