Yeah, but OG reddit culture prior to direct U.S. domestic intelligence ops is also an abstraction and derivation from SA and 4chan, which has always been 'anti-normie'. Unless those cultures are also ops. I really think it's one of those dialectical 'chicken-egg' situations.
I mean the internet was originally an ARPA project. Got opened to universities first and then the public later. Though I think the reality is that the same class strata occupies both.
I've always wondered, is reddit-brain reflective of U.S. foreign policy brain, or has U.S. foreign policy brain just been infected by reddit brain.
Propaganda on Reddit flows from the US state department. Clearly the former then.
Yeah, but OG reddit culture prior to direct U.S. domestic intelligence ops is also an abstraction and derivation from SA and 4chan, which has always been 'anti-normie'. Unless those cultures are also ops. I really think it's one of those dialectical 'chicken-egg' situations.
It's really not.
So you suppose all internet culture derives from DARPA?
It's bazinga brains all the way down.
I mean the internet was originally an ARPA project. Got opened to universities first and then the public later. Though I think the reality is that the same class strata occupies both.
Especially since Stanford has always been funded by natsec