Pressure

The longer I live the less I understand the world around me. We as a society seem to kind of subscribe to the ideal of freedom but do we live by it? In IT world this controversy manifests differently but similarly to social media with its institutionalized trolling and cancel culture. In IT, we are under pressure to conform to mainstream.

This is how it works. Ask a question about deviating from the mainstream, and instead of whomever willing to answer it realizing that the asker has a good reason for asking this question and instead of giving a straight answer they lecture the asker. The lecturing always goes along the same lines: you put yourself at risk by deviating from the prescribed mainstream. HELL YEAH! Everyone is at risk, and no one is willing to even remotely take responsibility for it! Just read license agreements of any piece of software, including libraries, services, drivers, and whatnot. Each and every of them contains profuse declaration of non-responsibility, AS-IS offering, non-suitability for any particular purpose, yada, yada, yada.

So, why do you even bother lecturing us about the risk, online, whereas you explicitly deny responsibility in your contracts? Why such hypocrisy?

Bottom line is, this pressure is institutional, persistent, pervasive, omnipresent, and therefore supported on the highest levels of societal pyramid. Our society is hypocritical and does not live by the ideal that it declares. Do you know what it means? It means that no one respects nothing and no one else. And this in turn means that we are not afforded any freedoms. Everything we see and hear is a lie.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 07:44 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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