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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago

I feel like none of these things are actually new to tech media, or media in general for that matter?

Didn't people worship Steve Jobs, who was literally the marketer, not the guy programming anything?

The number of people who defend Richard Stallman when he says off-color things is high, too.

I'm not even sure cult of personality is always the fault of the personality as much as fanboyism.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah, tech side is irrelevant.

Many people like worshiping prominent figures, and looking up to them for inspiration and socializing with other fans about their adoration and displaying signs of support for them. It's nothing unique to tech.

Kardashians, Trump, Rogan, etc. List is endless in all spaces.

[-] upstream@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed.

Not that it’s my field, but I wouldn’t be shocked if this has a lot to do with the human propensity to fall for religion.

Many humans actually have genetic traits that make them more likely to become religious [citation needed].

I suspect religion is interchangeable.

I recall a research case a decade or so back, where they took a huge Apple fan and showed him Apple logos and products while doing an MRI or something and his brain lit up the same way a religious persons brain would when you show them religious iconography, like a cross.

Some people are simply followers, doesn’t matter what.

Some people like to exploit that, such as Trump and Joe Rogan. Surprised they’re not peddling NFT’s and Crypto.

[-] Mint@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Trump was peddling nfts and crypto

[-] upstream@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Good. Seems I blocked enough Trump news not to notice :D

[-] preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Let me drop this quote here:

“Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable …”

[-] liv@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah ego, dogmatism, and the cult of personality are problems in many fields, I think.

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