Travis Shrugged: The creepy, dangerous ideology behind Silicon Valley’s Cult of Disruption

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2. Agreed

There is, and always has been, a streak of libertarianism in the Valley - what I've referred to more than once as technolibertarianism. It spins off in weird ways, such as the Kurtzweilite post-humanists who look upon 2040 as the the "singularity" when everything converges and we become one with the machine, and a distinct Randian flavor even to open source software, which is ironically probably the purest expression of communism in action. For the most part it's harmless, and while most TLs worship the ground that Ron Paul walks on, I believe the will sit out the election this time around - the GOP burned them big time at the convention, and I suspect the party lost what little loyalty they may have had from this group. That the technolibertarians are pretty much uniformly atheist or pagan doesn't help either - they tend to be socially moderate or even socially progressive so long as it doesn't infringe upon them personally, and have real problems with the Theocracy Party.