This would be a genuinely interesting and fruitful exploration.
At first glance, it looks like awful reading comprehension - but these are people perfectly capable of reading technical topics without difficulty.
You can say, well, these people have a salary that depends on them ignoring their complicity in a vast evil that has been warned about since the 50's; or even since the 80s in popular culture, creating an entire genre replete with subgenres and subcultures.
And that says a lot.
But what role does education play? Nationalism? Media capture?
I sincerely believe this is a crucial question that gets surprisingly little self reflection in the tech community. Where usually we love to pat ourselves on the back about our important role in the modern world, when it comes to our role in maintaining class structures, it's crickets at best and blind fury as standard - to the point where it seems people can't even understand simple sentences.
At first glance, it looks like awful reading comprehension - but these are people perfectly capable of reading technical topics without difficulty.
You can say, well, these people have a salary that depends on them ignoring their complicity in a vast evil that has been warned about since the 50's; or even since the 80s in popular culture, creating an entire genre replete with subgenres and subcultures.
And that says a lot.
But what role does education play? Nationalism? Media capture?
I sincerely believe this is a crucial question that gets surprisingly little self reflection in the tech community. Where usually we love to pat ourselves on the back about our important role in the modern world, when it comes to our role in maintaining class structures, it's crickets at best and blind fury as standard - to the point where it seems people can't even understand simple sentences.