Much of the pleasure of “Mountainhead” is the way it reflects our preposterous nightmare world. It’s not fun to live in a dawning age of technofeudalism, but it is satisfying to see it channeled into comedy.
This counterrevolution is strange because there never was a revolution. They’re upset about pronouns. They’re upset that their workers want some workplace democracy. They’re upset about DEI. They really believe that their power should be absolute.
An unelected tech billionaire has so much power over the government. Tech titans fell in line behind Trump, MAGA-style populism is giving way to an optimization-oriented vision for the country’s future. Historic parallels help explain Musk’s rampage.
In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary.
Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.
For scholars of political ideology who have closely followed tech billionaire and Palantir founder Peter Thiel over the years, Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate is utterly terrifying.
Wrong on so many levels
Tech and disability, the French Murdoch, and more media flashes
Deteriorating working conditions have led to a shift in perspective, sparking an unprecedented wave of worker activism.
California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.
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