There have been a number of attacks on techies in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, and I just saw this one linked on Drudge:
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A man said he had his Google Glass snatched of his face and smashed to the ground in San Francisco’s Mission District Friday evening.
20-year-old journalist Kyle Russell, a reporter for Business Insider, said the attack happened as he was walking on the sidewalk with a colleague. A woman came up to him and yelled, “Glass!” and grabbed the device off his face and sprinted away, he said.
I suspect it was a supporter of a commie-Luddite group known as the Counterforce. Calling themselves anarchists, they believe high tech is evil, exploitative, and must be stopped:
…they [the techies] are drunk on their own power, caught up in a sense of importance bestowed upon them by the type of wealth most of us will never interact with. [Google employee] Kevin Rose will rise and fall with the elites of the dominant order. While we struggle to be included in the trickle-down of wealth through dehumanizing menial labor, these techies, entrepreneurs, and capitalists take over the world. Knowing that at the vanguard of this tech invasion are people like Kevin Rose only increases our desire to completely stop the current insanity.
Taken as a whole, Kevin Rose invests in startups that perpetuate the process of alienation under the guise of social technology. It is, admittedly, genius: create the technological conditions of alienation that drive people to desperately consume technological products that claim to combat the alienation produced by contemporary technological society. Tech is now about creating and selling the new indispensable commodity that everyone must have in order to be less bored, less lost, less ridden with anxiety. We want no part of this disgusting and creepy game being played by a bunch power deranged man-children.
Accordingly, these so-called “anarchists: have issued a demand:
To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.
I predict Google will give them nothing.
Dream on, you stupid fools…
(I’m hardly a fan of Google, but as Churchill once said about siding with Stalin, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”)
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10 responses to “Attack the techies! (Latest Commie fad.)”
It could be worse they could have set up a road block like the tea bagger militia did in nevada and shoot any geek who wanders by!
Wait… if they’re created with outside money, how are they autonomous? Is a tapeworm autonomous?
And, somehow, I don’t think I’d want to live in a “community” created for negativity: rather than defining it as “we hate this” and “we hate that”, have they ever considered “we’re gonna do our own thing, and create cool stuff”? (Of course not. Creating cool stuff is for those horrible startup companies and old-fashioned artists.)
Hmm. Just how much housing could they build, in the Bay Area, for $3 billion, assuming they actually bought the land and got building permits? (Hint: if it doesn’t already have a house on it, you won’t be allowed to build one. If it has an office building on it, you may be be allowed to tear it down and hire a big construction company to build a condo complex.)
“In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free.”
Well, until the three billion dollars they extorted runs out.
Then it’s back to scarcity and material goods and work and paying for what you use.
For less than 10% of 3 billion google could hire a contingent of ex special forces to put the hurt on these assholes.
What is “anti-racist”? “Racist” means acting differently toward someone depending on their race. You either act in a racist manner or you do not. “Anti-racist” implies taking action against…what? Taking action against someone else’s actions? That has null meaning–can’t be done.
If it means taking action against someone else who is perceived to be acting in a racist manner, then that’s not anarchy. They are setting up an anti-racist hierarchy, with themselves at the top making decisions about who shall have action taken against them. Hardly anarchical.
So which is it? Are they anarchists? Or are they authoritarian anti-racists?
Neil,
The anarchists (communists actually) I knew were always authoritarian. Some one has to be in charge of giving away “free”. Some one had to run the Free Store. And pay the rent. And electric bill.
Meet the new boss – same as the old boss.
The Who were on to them a very long time ago. Just for fun. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htz9CS-Zmms
neil meet the nazi same as the old nazi! conservative theme song “smiling faces.”
I wish Google would wake up to the fact that California isn’t very business friendly and move someplace else.
That would shut up all the folks in San Francisco – just remove their tax base.
Scratch an anarchist, find a communist. The English variety is even more entertaining, living on welfare while protesting the state.
scratch a conservative find a nazi!