cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9066249
source is this engineering ethics textbook. the rest of it seems like regular things engineering students need to learn, like “why should i care about other people”
“But just remember, if you hear your coworkers talking about the evils your own nation is committing, they are lying and dangerous and should be reported the authorities immediately.”
the thing about american propaganda is that condemning america’s actions without organizing against them just serves to reinforce it. liberals in the imperial core have bought in to idealism and individualism so hard they genuinely cannot imagine action outside of posting hunger games quotes online. so the principal freedom, the freedom from which all other freedoms are derived, is freeze peach. and as long as you have that all is well. except if you’re a russian bot
Peaceful protest mindset has done an excellent job defanging outrage. Now the CIA can declassify a report saying Usian hegemony causes half a billion undue deaths every decade and it wouldn’t even need to be swept under the rug by the next trump scandal.
For my part (not Usian but not that much better) I’ve been entirely unable to convince people around me that inaction isn’t without cost.
yeah there’s a lot of talk in leftist spaces about how the usa is like an omnipotent antichrist but the bigger thing is so long as the treat faucet keeps running, most usamericans won’t even think about anything more involved than holding up a sign about the president’s dick
So they’re developing software for the US government, got it.
As an engineering school dropout, I shudder to think about how the lecture discussing this ethics case would be like. I’m also including the lecturer in my assessment, because some engineering professors also go out of their way to make sure students understand they’re cool and edgy and not your typical middle-aged cracker.
Some of the worst people I’ve had the displeasure to meet were the kind of unconcerned individualistic nerds who would happily ignore the consequences of their work, in order to build up their CV and make some money.
From the ethics class i took like 70% of them would build the phrenology machine no questions asked
the USA?
