Tech Bros Are Not Stoopid. You Are.
April 29, 2026
The Nation posted“The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite.” Let’s think about that for a moment. Do the technology elite, the leaders in Silicon Valley, and the future of mankind lack intellect?
Look at these notable contributions: Data centers that suck power and scare animals. Social media. 24×7 surveillance. Lots of money for them and their fellow travelers.
Outstanding achievements.
The Nation’s article states:
“As the historian Richard Hofstadter noted, a fierce anti-intellectual spirit has long animated American culture, but it has typically targeted the knowledge elite from below. What’s striking about today’s brand of anti-intellectualism is that it infuses the American knowledge elite; it stems from the bedrock conviction among tech oligarchs that they have mastered everything and have nothing left to learn. In this cloistered vision of tech-driven learning, they believe that deep intellectual work—the kind you do when you author a complex piece of music, for example—has little or no inherent value. Their disdain for it has fueled their attacks on higher education, the humanities, and learning for its own sake, which they believe has no purpose beyond its inevitable digitization and monetization.”
The write up points out that some tech elites think learning for learning’s sake does not deliver a payoff. High school and college education are not useful unless a wizard is a late bloomer can join one of the BAIT (big AI technology) companies.
What else does the article reveal:
“As ardent monopolists, they’ve managed to believe they’ve cornered the market on critical thinking. Everyone else needn’t be troubled by the rigors of learning, since they exist solely to serve as drones in the tech regimes of the future.”
Does this sound in line with “all men are created equal”? My view is that Silicon Valley bros are indeed elitists, oligarchs, champagne socialists, idiots with money, toxic masculinity, and gangsters made of zeros and ones.
Yep, the tech bros want females to be “trad wives” and pay attention to the kiddies. The tech bros do the man concerns. Lesser entities support the new construct. And what about emotional intelligence of empathy and compassion?
Hey, just ask Gemini, OpenAI, or another of the AI utilities. The outputs will set you on the right path.
Whitney Grace, April 29, 2026
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