[discuss] Digital mythologies

The current dominant digital mythologies are (imho) so excellently summed by Astra Taylor and Meredith Whittaker in this podcast. Here’s a 5 min snippet:

https://vvvvvvaria.org/~decentral1se/kabk/varia.zone/1.demolish.tech/Whittaker-Demolish-Long.mp3

And one of the immediate, pervasive, toxic and disempowering concrete issues we face today is summed up excellently in this 2 min snippet from the same podcast. Which mythology produces this response? Is it because I am not a “guy who has ideas”?

https://vvvvvvaria.org/~decentral1se/kabk/varia.zone/1.demolish.tech/Whittaker-Demolish-Short.mp3

I don’t think we even have a term to describe this issue? It seems to be a collective self-confidence crisis which is holding us all back? This feels like a missing language “toolkit”. I don’t know an online resource which makes visible these pervasive stories and why they should be decentered and dismantled. These ideas only serve monopoly power and offer no meaning or balance for society.

I am curious what other counter/alternative digital mythologies are out there. This always seems like an urgent theoretical task which I still don’t have adequate resources for. Any and all input welcome!

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