The Double-Life Geek, or: Farewell to Gemini, Part 4
This is probably the last blog post that talks about the Gemini protocol and the main focus isn't even going to be about the protocol itself. I want to talk about a phenomenon that I believe have existed and is still existing. I call this the double-life geek phenomenon.
As I've said in Part 3, I believe that the Gemini community (especially the individuals who have the ability to influence the community as a whole) actively rejected their mandate of heaven by rejecting proposals of reasonable extensions and restricting themselves into this tiny social bubble that, while being very robust against (sometimes imaginary) infiltrations from "the outside world", will never have enough power to push positive changes. The new thing that I'm going to talk about here, is that I suspect that almost none of the people who are truly devoted to the Gemini community would ever want to push real positive changes in the world they deemed so "dirty" that they created a completely separated space just to escape into. It's almost like they're telling you by the action they choose that the outside world can go and rot on its own accord as long as they can still have this tiny dream space that they could be in whenever they want; and because they have this dream space they could escape to they gleefully accept the lifestyle of enduring the shits of modern tech with zero action of going against it. I also believe that this is not a thing that only happens within the Gemini community, and there are modern "geeks" talked as if they're on par with the original masters like Douglas Engelbart and Ivan Sutherland while in reality none of them is.
People talk about how bad a post-capitalist cyberpunk world would be towards individuals, like how a single person or a couple rebels couldn't possibly have enough power to go against whichever Big Corporation that would be ruling the world at that point; they talk about it as if they never had any responsibility for allowing things to become this bad by living inside their blissful escapism by having such a double-life. I have my respect only for those who willingly go against Goliath; I have no respect for any of these people.
And of course someday someone's gonna be like "I never saw any of the people you described online what the hell are you piece of nobody yapping about" and pretend that I was just blabbering nonsense and never called them out for who they are. Oh well.
Last update: 2024.11.2