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Her guess is plutocracy. But she apologizes for the profanity. I'm talking to my aunt at Thanksgiving. In her twenties she was in the Weather Underground. Her father was a communist. To my Leftist New York Jewish family this registers as betrayal. In fact, they are wrong. "Because the powerful fuck with the weak, the mandate of the Left—from Christ to Jefferson to Marx, etc.—is to stop your narcissistic, neo-industrialist 'tech bro' friends, Max, from stomping their boots on the face of the world." She passes me the Tofurkey. "For Trump? "You—who live in The Bay, where the Free Speech Movement began and Chogyam Trungpa brought Buddhism to America? "You—whose peers call artificial intelligence, fusion, brain-connection devices, etc. 'technologies of transcendence' and drop psychedelic drugs? "You pick the man who beats the drum of blood-and-soil nativism? "You talk like a vanguard but vote for a reactionary? "How did the Left become Right?" Here is a personal answer. It happened slowly

Technology Brother Elegy Who's going to explain the Tech Right to the journalists? Question "How the fuck could you vote for Trump?" Her guess is plutocracy. But she apologizes for the profanity. I'm talking to my mother at Thanksgiving. She was in the Weather Underground in her twenties. Her father was a communist. To her and my Leftist New York Jewish family, this registers as straight betrayal. Though in fact, they are wrong. "Because the powerful fuck with the weak, the mandate of the Left—from Christ to Jefferson to Marx to Maya Angelou—is to stop you and your narcissistic, neo-industrial

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