@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2026-04-27 15:07 UTC
Another dismissive reaction I’ve gotten: “Duh, because it’s in their self-interest.” Ok. But this line of criticism falls apart if you even invest ten seconds of actual thought: How do they define “self-interest”? And why? And how has that changed over time? Again, these questions deserve proper reflection.
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@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 15:08
It’s not like I’m opposed to employing the term fascism - I am extensively talking about both tech fascism and the concept of “reactionary modernism” in the piece - but the “Let’s call them all fascists and be done with it” dismissiveness is not helping us understand anything better.
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@janxdevil@sfba.social 2026-04-27 15:50
@tzimmer_history Yeah, that is totally not an answer to “Why only now and not before? Or later?” Proof that your interlocutors are not engaging with the central point, and they are engaging with something tangential. Maybe whatever it is they want to engage with is interesting, maybe not, but it doesn’t sound like they are prepared to do it.