Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:56AM
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No, a lot of this guilt-tripping and politicizing is actually contributing to the self-destruction - it divides people more, makes them less likely to care about each other, and sucks out the oxygen in the media, so that the big problems cannot be discussed productively.
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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
by coldtea on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:12AM
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The eras when "big problems [were] discussed productively" (and something was done about them) were the eras when the division was at its highest.
E.g. the division between the civil rights people and those that wanted a segregated society.
Or the division between the anti-war movement in the later sixties and the "patriotic" pro-Vietnam war establishment.
Else, the bipartisan consensus (or small differences) just leads to the incremental management of what's there, and no real initiative for change (e.g. like the last 3+ decades regarding the environment or inequality).