Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Good Lord
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/good-lord
- Read date:: 2025-02-02
Highlights
my suspicion is that Silicon Valley contrarianism isn’t about a relentless pursuit of every truth; it’s about indulgence. The talks at Hereticon aren’t hard realities that make the people giving and watching them uncomfortable; they’re forbidden fruits that make other people uncomfortable. Hereticon’s speakers appear to frame their ideas as meeting two criteria—that they are controversial, and perhaps true—but I’d guess that there is also a third: That they want them to be true. (View Highlight)
His strategy is not to avoid scandal and savagery, but to flood the zone with it; to overwhelm us with so many new cruelties and so much naked corruption that we can’t digest any of it. (View Highlight)
We are the most powerful industry in the world, rich beyond belief, unfireable, with all of this civilization staring into our apps and the cradle of the next one being engineered in our labs. And if, despite all that, we cannot stand up to anything that is happening now—not even everything, but anything—perhaps we are not such brave heretics after all. (View Highlight)