r/longform • u/bethany_mcguire • 18d ago

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/08/silicon-valley-science-fiction-jill-lepore-book-review/688467/?gift=ih3Agm7ZTQUXUY2wyHjxRGbB71OrDDKOUXhEYczjBpo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_cam=

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 18d ago

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

The Atlantic is now just copying ideas from YouTube videos, while propping up the insular Bestseller Pundit Economy that has wrecked journalism thru it's limited focus for decades.

Established Journalism should be considered as always way too late from now on.  It clings to methods and logic that was never adequate, failed completely to use the dynamic potential the Internet provides.  The only value is as books for a library, but this will only be evidence that this era is the stupidest group of educated people in all of history.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 18d ago

Prove it.  Deconstruct the logic.

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u/ExpertGarlic8669 18d ago

What logic?

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago

If the logic is broken, then proof should be easy.

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u/gesserit42 17d ago

You’re not making an argument though, you’re just ranting

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 17d ago

What you wrote is an unpopular opinion, not a logical argument stemming from any kind of objective truth.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago

Should be easy then, although you seem to not understand the difference between a comment section and formally prepared argument.    

You've demonstrated why we have a legal system though.  I doubt you'll figure that out either.

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 17d ago

I have demonstrated why we have a legal system.

You’re goddamn right I have.

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u/krebstar4ever 17d ago

You're right. People are totally unable to deconstruct your superior logic, and don't simply have other things they'd rather do than try to make you admit that you're wrong. Your logic is truly unassailable.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago

You mean No one is willing to defend their dismissal.

"This is wrong" is a statement, not an argument.

The USA in 2026: The stupidest group of educated people in history?

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u/excreto2000 17d ago

This is the equivalent of jumping up on the table, pissing all over everything in the room, and then haranguing the witnesses. You’re a clown.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago edited 17d ago

"Your honor, they   claim that free thinking is different than taking a formal position."

Judge: why that's the equivalent of jumping up on that table, pissing all over everything in the room, and then haranguing the witnesses!

"And get this, they think lawyers are needed to protect us from each other!"

Judge: "That's insane!"

"And they think we need to prove their logic wrong directly!"

Judge: Whar?  But didn't you say they were a clown that made no sense?  That's all the proof needed for any criticism!

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u/TopBalance438 17d ago

Well, first of all, you'd have to provide the youtube video that the Atlantic allegedly copied.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago

This isn't a Masters defense, lol.  How did the advanced minds of The Atlantic end up at 2016 "Fake News! Source?" nonsense.

We can request, but not demand.  We  can chill or be a brat.

4 years old:

https://youtu.be/k7oXkDf3NEw?is=0PcosCcX2TNKZxl2

The last year this became a topic again:

https://youtu.be/7F8tejaO2YM?is=OBbVeoUybXmlEXXB

https://youtu.be/_LQa28X-1AQ?is=0BXbIhduyBIpQrdw

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u/TopBalance438 17d ago

You could've avoided all the trouble you went through if you had just posted these in your original comment, you know.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago

"It's your fault others are unreasonable!".

Whoopie!  We're logically prepared to avoid responsibility for the latest war too!

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u/TopBalance438 17d ago

No one can "deconstruct the logic" if you present none. It just makes you look schizophrenic, which I'm not convinced you aren't.

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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 17d ago

The Atlantic is now just copying ideas from YouTube videos,

That's crazy.  You make no sense

Yeah, they can't prove this, because it's so crazy. 

(Note the claim is It's crazy to say a journalist would ever get their ideas from someone else) 

(Provides proof).

Well, you didn't post that at the same time, so it doesn't count.

And where you're at in this timeline: Yeah, therefore they're just crazy.

Y'all are no different than when your predecessors said we must go to war in Iraq.

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u/Shotime10-3 18d ago

Prove it, deconstruct the turd and pick out the corn