29
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm

contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article

highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this "manifesto" on his website:

a long sequence of bullet points about vigor in art and promoting harmony

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Listen I love me a giant statue, surely we can find a common ground. The right wants giant statues to be of rich white men, I say Kropotkin it is.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here's my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Anno was cooking when he predicted that the tech elite (seele) would try to melt down all of humanity into amorphous data (orange tang) and control the “superintelligence” singularity (third impact)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    meme textMeme template is the scene from the tv show "The Good Place", where Michael is expressing disbelief about someone notably stupid figuring something out.

    Michael: "Alex Jones figured it out? Alex Jones? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent