I like it because it's applicable to a specific subset of techbro, they aren't even acolytes or priests in the imperialist death cult, unlike the techbro entrepreneurs they are more like slavish cultists, they don't understand capital but they worship its most absurd and obscene aspects. They are the Musk fanboys and cryptobros that aren't in on the grift, they are the marks.
We jokingly disparage being "terminally online" and there is a point where too much internet is definitely unhealthy, but there's a sort of catharsis in the ability to view the whole political landscape, so long as you have a firm understanding of materialism. I feel better knowing all the dumbest/worst shit that is bubbling under the surface level discourse. The tools of dialectical and historical materialism can only be honed by applying them to even the most absurd and abstract forms of commodity fetishism and reactionary thought processes in addition to more "basic" forms of class conflict. The more data we can incorporate into our analysis the more useful it becomes.
I like it because it's applicable to a specific subset of techbro, they aren't even acolytes or priests in the imperialist death cult, unlike the techbro entrepreneurs they are more like slavish cultists, they don't understand capital but they worship its most absurd and obscene aspects. They are the Musk fanboys and cryptobros that aren't in on the grift, they are the marks.
You summed it up well.
We jokingly disparage being "terminally online" and there is a point where too much internet is definitely unhealthy, but there's a sort of catharsis in the ability to view the whole political landscape, so long as you have a firm understanding of materialism. I feel better knowing all the dumbest/worst shit that is bubbling under the surface level discourse. The tools of dialectical and historical materialism can only be honed by applying them to even the most absurd and abstract forms of commodity fetishism and reactionary thought processes in addition to more "basic" forms of class conflict. The more data we can incorporate into our analysis the more useful it becomes.