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plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io🔒 How Geeks Ate the WorldDefining geeks, how their relationship with masculinity formed a culture, and their culture formed an ideology.

If you want to read along with this project as I draft it, you can sign up for my weekly current affairs commentary newsletter. The newsletter every Friday is free, but draft chapters of my book, roughly once a month, are for paid subscribers only. The first episode frames the topic: 2/🧵

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plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: Demons of SuspicionDefining feminism and how its opponents began to organize around a counter-movement ostensibly dedicated to men's rights.

The second episode defines feminism and sets the stage for how reactionary antifeminist movements emerged as a backlash to feminism in the mid to late 20th Century. 3/🧵

plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: Backward MalePaul Elam and the origins of an internet phenomenon known as the manosphere.

The third episode deals with the more extreme antifeminist sentiment that began to evolve upon the development of the internet, specifically the "Men's rights movement." 4/🧵

plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: The Californian IdeologyThe ideological foundations of early cyberspace, from WarGames to Wired

The fourth episode details the foundation of the internet itself, from its little-discussed bulletin board culture, that developed separately from ARPANET but seeded the internet's predominently white/male/libertarian culture. 4/🧵