• NightOwl@lemmy.one
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    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.

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      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.

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        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 …”