I eavesdrop on many conversations held by influential people in tech. Sometimes I’m in the same room and sometimes I read their words on websites. Mostly, they focus on each other and do not see me. But I hear, I see them.

Often, these influential people, they talk about the joy in destruction. They see a bright future ahead, and they are all giddy to destroy for that future. Everything is a dragon that must be slain. Kill cancer; kill sovereign coin; kill death itself; kill unskilled labor; kill fuel; etc, (I’m sure you’ve heard your own).

It’s all hyperbole, sure, but the heart of this talk stays true: the present is vile, the way things are must not lead into the way things will be. This is an imperative. A swift, vorpal crack to the throat of the now is the highest benevolence. Disrupt!

From my little vantage, I don’t mean to cast judgment. The important thing you come away with is that, here, I am indeed a mere observer. The rhetoric depicted is not my own. In fact, make a test of it yourself. If you too are immersed in this world, count the number of war cries or crusader’s avowal you witness in a day. How many, in their own ways, say a prayer to destruction?

I eavesdrop on many conversations held by influential people in tech. Sometimes I’m in the same room and sometimes I read their words on websites. Mostly, they focus on each other and do not see me. But I hear, I see them.

Often, these influential people, they talk about the joy in destruction. They see a bright future ahead, and they are all giddy to destroy for that future. Everything is a dragon that must be slain. Kill cancer; kill sovereign coin; kill death itself; kill unskilled labor; kill fuel; etc, (I’m sure you’ve heard your own).

It’s all hyperbole, sure, but the heart of this talk stays true: the present is vile, the way things are must not lead into the way things will be. This is an imperative. A swift, vorpal crack to the throat of the now is the highest benevolence. Disrupt!

From my little vantage, I don’t mean to cast judgment. The important thing you come away with is that, here, I am indeed a mere observer. The rhetoric depicted is not my own. In fact, make a test of it yourself. If you too are immersed in this world, count the number of war cries or crusader’s avowal you witness in a day. How many, in their own ways, say a prayer to destruction?