Irony is, those in need of deprogramming the most are the ones into programming. How is it even possible that people that are supposed to be so intelligent/logical/rational are actually this gullible to state's propaganda that they believe it without a shred of doubt.
take it from a programmer, folks: knowing how to make computer do magic doesnt equate to general intelligence or automatically make one better at unrelated things like politics. computer shit is a skill like any other that just happens to have a (false) connotation of "high intelligence" whatever that means.
Intelligence and political awareness aren't correlated. Confrontation with politics in everyday life and political awareness are.
Maybe a hot take, but we really shouldn't be glorifying intelligence the way we do, it has a lot of resemblance to fascist ideology.
The spread in intelligence really isn't that wide. People without clinical impairments or other disorders can specialize in practically whatever field they like. It's primarily just a function of wealth and mental health. What distinguishes 'intelligent' people' from the less intelligent is that, for whatever reason, they have an edge in learning speed. That's it. They're not transcendental beings who somehow have more access to 'the truth' of the universe.
Of course, on the very rare occasion, there are people who excel at very specific tasks but even then that says nothing about their ability to do anything else.
We are overpaid to produce useless shit that is overvalued under monopoly capitalism because software as a service is hyper efficient rent seeking. Because we make rich people so much money there is industrial level propaganda to make our work out to be some revolutionary science that will solve all of humanities problems.
I'm a programmer as well, but being good at your job does not mean your political ideas are better as a consequence. It just means you have the capacity for it, not that it's being used.
Also, programmers are paid better, so I'd imagine they would believe we live in a meritocracy and tend to ignore those below them (they don't know they exist).
I'm sure it's not just programmers who have this issue.
I mean, programmers are also the most uplifted profession by capitalism nowadays, that often does so little and have a lot of their work discarded. Their bosses also love promising "futurist" hopes that they'll rule the world. They're basically the digital world version of corporate lawyers, and its within their interests (or at least, the interest of those who rise to become capitalists) to be obsessed with liberalising everything.
Also, y'know, the whole process of defunding social studies worldwide in favour of STEM fields does wonders to a techkid brain.
I was thinking about this issue in the past and I came to the conslusion that what we perceive as "intelligence" is deeply flawed concept, for many reasons. For example, many people who struggle with intelligence tests are just people who have problems with attention.
Additionally, there seems to be very little correlatiom between "intelligence" and understanding of how the world works.
I know some people who are good at maths but have horrible brain-dead political views. nazis had intelligent generals. I also know someone who worked as a juror, company manager and government official at different stages of her life, but still acts very irrational in her everyday life.
At the same time I know people who do not have reputation of being the most intelligent, but they have a very good understanding of social problems, they are "street smart", enphatetic towards others and critical towards what they see in their everyday life. I could argue that they act more rationally than the people from the group above, even though they are not IT professionals or trained academically.
In my opinion, this line of reasoning leads nowhere. (:
been reading hackernews for years, can say with no doubt they are utterly reactionary fascists generally, who have extremely inflated egos and genuinely believe in things like "value add", "market incentives", "CEOs aren't paid enough because their 'value add' is so high", "governance models", "technocracy", but the worst is their "debate" bro culture
everything is a debate, and it's their elevated minds who need to be convinced by the common poors of anything. they'll often question flippantly extremely basic concepts like whether quality of life is bad for poor people, whether black and or LGBT people are genuinely oppressed, but posture it as a debate and that they're just "curious" and "looking for evidence" when they prove in their first few sentences they haven't spent even 1 minute looking for evidence, or they'd already know
their average immense wealth (I would say hackernews readership is 100k+ typical income, and heavily biased towards the viewpoint of 500k+ job hoppers and multimillionaire tech "leaders") blinds them to everything that isn't a javascript framework
they genuinely believe they are the cutting edge of humanity and the only hope for leading the world towards full automation, good "governance" through decentralized or even literal feudal kingdom style arrangements, etc
i have nothing, nothing good to say about hackernews demographic. any time you see anything even remotely left wing or pro union let alone socialist or anything not in line with the US imperialist line, it's piled on by a bunch of fascists and downvoted or hidden
People from jobs which on average have above average income don't get affected by capitalism same way as the average and sub average income people do and therefore don't get exposed to the issues. They might even benefit from capitalism because they have the disposable income to do so. It's in their interest to preserve the status quo.
Partly inflated egos, partly being so well paid by the spoils looted from the imperial periphery that even if they do realize it's bullshit that they'll keep up the anticommunism to defend their treats.
As a programmer, I never understood why other programmers were so against organizing. In many cases, they hold the entire company by the balls and could easily shut the whole thing down. Large software projects are complex in completely idiosyncratic ways which greatly reduces the ability to replace staff quickly. Hopefully this dogshit profession is automated away but that probably won't happen any time soon.
“Before Covid, people viewed Kim Jong Un positively,” says Myong Suk, “but now almost everyone is full of discontent.”
From the original article.
Meaning... Up until 2020, despite every bit of western media claimeing that it was a ruthless dictatorship murdering 90% of the population every week, up until 2020 people viewed Kim Jong Un positively?
After covid I wonder which country isn't full of discontent.
You see this same phenomenon in general with the western bullshit that their ideas and traditions come from Greco-Roman philosophy, the Renaissance and Enlightenment. But for how much they laud reason, facts and logic, they're the most unreasonable, de facto illogical people on this planet.
Almost all jobs programmers can get are ones where they produce something directly for a bourgeois loser. Thats why they get paid so much. They are often direct servants to the porkies, who value bootlicking over quality.
Everything will, suddenly, be OK once DPRK opens up to liberalisation leaving it's resources and markets at disposal of empire once and for all opening the gates of hell to it's citizens like the South one did. All they are doing is creating a breeding ground and consensus to go to war with DPRK whenever they get an excuse/chance.