@ConceptualJames I remember the ‘90s. There was a persistent and ultimately successful propaganda campaign against the idea of civil liability in mainstream news publications.
https://x.com/robinhanson/status/1498805471322394624
@ConceptualJames The big movies of 1999 were expressions of desperation at the false bourgeois we’d constructed to replace the real one - Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty, and The Matrix, which spookily resembled the Columbine High School massacre.
@ConceptualJames The Matrix also specifically and correctly predicted that we’d try to replay the ‘90s over and over to keep the simulation going instead of getting on with our lives. The best Office Space could recommend was becoming a laborer.
@ConceptualJames It makes more sense to think of the ‘90s as the last decade in which a relatively sheltered person might not realize that society was systematically breaking its implied commitments to people who worked hard & played by the rules.
@ConceptualJames The treatment of the ‘94 McDonald’s coffee burns lawsuit is an example of the propaganda against civil liability.
@ConceptualJames I’d be excited to try and cooperate with anyone trying to make sense of and solve the deep cultural and political problems that were latent in the ‘90s but clearly visible in hindsight, but I don’t see many people trying to do that.
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