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Anand Giridharadas:

“We often have these folk memories that are not our own memories, but are just kind of passed down. 

There’s a folk memory in tech of being a rebel, of being a hacker, of being a tinkerer on the outside.

And I think if you’re like 30 and working in tech, that just was never the actual story of your life.

I think the problem is they’ve clung to that folk memory even as they won.

So the analogy I use is, you see on the news these war-torn countries where you have a rebel army that is advancing on the capitol.

And you’ve got these rebel commanders in their berets sitting in the back of pickup trucks. They’ve got one gun, holding another gun.

Sometimes the rebels win. Sometimes the rebels actually make it to the palace. They become the new king, they become the president.

The old guy’s taken off in a helicopter to some exile country.

And it’s always a bad sign if the rebel, when they ascend to the palace, keeps their beret on.

Castro, Mugabe, Saddam, they all kept the beret. And what does it mean when you keep the beret? You haven’t accepted who you are.

You now actually are power. You’re not the rebel. You’re the establishment now and you haven’t processed your arrival. (…)

I think, when I was listening to [your interview with Mark Zuckerberg], my observation was… And I had the same feeling watching that Elon Musk spliff one.

I love to live in a world where there are all kinds of different people.

But I think we have to, just watching these guys, we have to acknowledge that they tend to be a very particular kind of person. Particular kind of man.

And they’re often these kind of boy-men who are not particularly developed in a lot of ways. They’re not cultivated.

That’s fine to have such people who kind of are not able to relate to other human beings and not able to connect to their emotions.

It’s great to have them in the world.

But to have so many of them essentially, now, in charge of what have become, basically, the locomotives of human history now, these various platforms, is really, really problematic.”

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Source: Recode Decode: ‘Winners Take All’ author Anand Giridharadas

MBTI: Anand Giridharadas: ENTJ, Mark Zuckerberg: INTP, Elon Musk: INTP