Or taking a
different route entirely: In Silicon Valley, bootstrapping is typically underrated and undervalued, but it it gives founders the freedom to operate by their own rules — and protection from compromising their personal values (and health) in the
name of appeasing investors.
In a place designed to make you forget — everything from the reality
of mortality to your own
name — he is constantly searching for physical specificity and for a window, two
different routes back to reality.
Because
of the kinds
of things you talked about under the
name of Fabianism, instead
of democratic practices and accountability like popular participation and protests and other forms
of civic or popular review, we've gone the
route of professionalisation in the civil service and accountability via targets and standardisations and numbers, which enable what is often merely an appearance
of accountability, and actually operate in a very
different way from other more politicised forms
of accountability.