I am not a writer either. I am a (mostly failed) academic scientist as of this date. I am approaching 50, but I still hope to get back into science in my narrow area of hard science some day.
But whether it is science or posts on DU, I prefer that anything other honest human eyes see is unremarkable stylistically. But specific complaints cannot be watered down.
My writing and other behaviors since about Dec 2011 especially, but in fairness going as far back as early 2009/2010, were off-kilter.
I blame Facebook, Google (and for me personally, by now Tata, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple, AirTel, Jio, Amazon, SBI Card, other unknown small companies possibly connected to people like Alex Pentland) algorithms and probably agents, for a lot of what is wrong right now. I have even written to two journalists/one tech oped writer I trust (Yasha Levine, Christopher Ketcham/Ed Zitron). Further, I am very worried by what I saw on the ground here where I am in India as well by some stuff in the US.
I have no issues with any of the labs I worked in nor with my doctors. I generally broadly trust publicly funded scientists/doctors outside of computer science. Hospital and University administrators I shun. I have come across three computer scientists who seem respectable enough: Ryan Williams, Yan Lecun and Rollo Carpenter. I am wary of the field in general as kleptocracy and hype seem an unfortunate characteristic. Maybe that is unfair.
I will go over my journal and delete any posts that make references to other humans (who could find it objectionable). I do not know anyone irl who would like to be internet-famous anymore than I would.
I would hate for my name/identity to be associated with anything but my routine work. That said, I will not just accept a status quo I (probably) thoroughly disapprove of.
My journal, such as it is, represented pushback of a non-ideal kind. Now I will try to make it as organized and professional as writing that of necessity must castigate an entire field as prone to theft of labor. But harsh as that is, how else is one to defend oneself against allegations of paranoia or conspiracy theory. Economics and Computer Science do not have a good track record wrt honesty or professionalism as of this date.
I am not a professional expert. But this is tied to the complicated area of human trust and well I have never had any serious mental illness. But I find it disorienting to pretend to buy into an alarming acceleration driven by those two fields. Or mostly likely those.
I am determined to file complaints, but that requires more tangible information or at least a better structured narrative. If you get it wrong, it gives a neutral reader the wrong impression.
It is all tied to what your post talks about, but with specific focus on the malicious role of tech companies and media narratives that are dishonest even when mainstream.
This form of growth is a cancer on the planet and ruins lives. It fuel authoritarianism as resources get depleted by human overpopulation and an obsession with growth at any costs.
It is a nightmarish Hobson’s choice to force on immigrants to America or former visitors like myself with no fixed plans: this Cato/Koch/BigTech take on immigration versus the type of populism Steve Bannon/MTG etc represent. I was fortunate in having the means to come back home and feel for people forced to endure such stuff.
I am not European or Canadian. But it is not very clear why visitors from countries like India would be expected to have a monolithic response.
I assimilate superficially anywhere. But industrial colonization of earth and of this ever increasingly brainless kind, testing the limits to growth in every direction - factory farms, fossil fuels and now this obscene “data as oil” with its shallow and mind numbing forays into brain science and human life broadly..it is a bit much.
And this mindless copying of that or its equally execrable indigenous form (Ambani, Adani etc.)..No.
I have started thinking more clearly. I am determined to file complaints carefully and systematically. A blander and more deliberate form of writing will serve me well from here on out ;-/.
A lot of my journal was written just after I felt goaded or while distrait. I wasn’t sure how to respond to some stuff.
My issues are with private sector encroachment into human life at unacceptable levels. But I need more information.
Yasha Levine, Shoshana Zuboff, Chris Ketcham, Ed Zitron etc. have all covered different aspects of it. I also have some MeToo type complaints.
But a more staid form of output works as long as the gist is retained. I will rewrite what I wrote earlier this year.
I consider this the first formal post. It is Jan 16, 2026.
I am not happy with it. But it is a start. I will edit it atmost twice.
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