In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
I find it's actually kind of interesting to see what people get wrong when they try to reason through this stuff on their own. It's useful to identify the common misconceptions because it helps focus the messaging.
That is a very good point. After all, a lot of Marx's work was synthesized by correcting the errors in other previously proposed theories, such as dialectics. I agree that it's a good opportunity to seek out the flaws in this type of thinking and establish good arguments that counter it. I will try to remember this instead of allowing it to frustrate me.