Thanks 
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Greene is an idiot. So is Balaji Srinivasan who wants the same “divorce” and is a California tech bro of the Vivek Ramaswamy type shilling some sort of fake school (these guys do fit a sort of type):
https://www.wired.com/story/network-school-balaji-srinivasan/
(As an aside I find these tech bro-creeps fascinating. Their worldviews are so lousy and so many of them want to “rule the world”. We have to sound the alarm about these creeps especially with Musk and Ramaswamy etc out to destroy the govt now. Indeed arguably red parts of blue ca are cradles for some of the worst of these ideas in the last few decades. I posted about that here ( the links in the post not my meandering 
) and DUer Hekate said it is worthwhile to keep spreading the word :
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19736813).
People want to reduce life to such reductive patterns. It is not true of course that there are no patterns or that data doesn’t tell you stuff.
That argument reminds me of the guy (and sorry but it’s usually a guy 
) who says all nutrition science is bullshit using the anecdote that his grandfather ate steak everyday, drank a six pack, never exercised and lived to be a 100.
Sure, but most people who live like that will lead significantly shorter and unhealthier lives than those who do take care of their health.
But it is similarly reductive to attach salience to a few broad patterns here and there and to eschew more complete models that are rigorous and tested.
Hard to do in discussions as complex as ones related to the state of our connected world, its communication systems, technology’s effects and so on :-/.
But these ideas about the blue-red divorce are as common with the jerks of Si Valley as they are on more legitimately frustrated parts of the left. The former arguments make me wary. The latter are frustration I understand.
The former are as simplistic and crass as: wealth good, me wealthy, me good and genius, all else unfit and stupid, me make the world and they should all die 
. I have a hope that the public at large will first weary of these tech bros and take steps to reign in their shitty tools where they are quite legitimately destructive to democracy and the planet as a whole.
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