I had never heard of Drew Gooden until now, but this video is hilarious
Back when I was eight, and the only thing you could do on a computer was play solitaire, or pinball, or like .. do math on a calculator. Because back then, when you had nothing else to do y’know maybe just type some numbers…see what numbers you can come up with.
This is just too damn accurate of my childhood.
But like, getting to the zeitgeist mentality. I think that he really hits on what truly scares me about how little education has done for cluing now two almost three generations of people on how computers and networks function, and how that information is passed around.
You can’t just download an app, that’s going to change the hardware from within the phone. Like if the iPhone had the ability to weight things, you’d think they would like advertise and there would be a built-in scale app. It wouldn’t be something where they would be like “Oh yeah, just download some thirty-party app and you can just weigh things!” Like no sh*t it’s not gonna work…
The comments are just hilarious 
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This app is very useless!!! It doesn’t weigh out things I need weight out like drugs!!!
However, sometimes leaning so heavily into the “normies are all just dumber than we are” thinking is not conducive towards a solution, and positions privacy and tech as the only measures of intelligence. If that were the case, we wouldn’t have so many security leaks from those who lead the countries we all live in. This is why I am glad that PG exists and is taking the inclusive approach of not making this assumption:
That said, there doesn’t seem to be a high incentive to truly train people on these mental models and to most, they have been sold that just using software is all that is necessary to prosper in the digital age while lacking awareness of how much they are exploited. The growing numbers of disgruntled tech folk who can educate the zeitgeist is growing in this technofeudalistic system (to avoid use of the overloaded term of capitalism), and we are the ones that need to not only make the materials, but make it sexy (think of the “truth” campaign but aimed at exploitative industries mainly tech).
Great follow up to this. I think I’ll try to post these up as I see them and encourage others to do the same. I personally will try to avoid the tech elitist mentality approaching these as I think a lot of this ignorance is by passive design to keep the consumer class unaware of how much they are being exploited.