Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abib, a podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures and presenting complex, philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas in an engaging and accessible way.

Friends, when I moved to Ireland in 2019, the conversation here was very much about the ways in which Ireland was changing.

It was such a conversation about the new Ireland.

Gay marriage was legal, abortion was legal in ways that it never was before.

New light had been shed on the Catholic Church and its role in atrocity.

But also, tech was encroaching. All these tech companies,

Google, Facebook, Twitter, you know, the normal, the usual suspects, they were throwing new

buildings up for their employees, for their offices. They were bringing people

into work for them and employing a lot of Irish people as well. And, you know, really they were

sort of taking over the part of Ireland, Dublin, that I live in. Now, I'd seen text homogenizing effects

when I lived in San Francisco. And of course, everybody can see text homogenizing effects

culturally. When I lived in San Francisco, the worst of it was really just beginning. It was, you know, people on the streets living in tents

everywhere where other people were walking down the street at 12 o'clock, at 12 noon, eating $7

donuts and, you know, making two or $300,000 a year, uh, while doing

not much. Um, but more than that, it was controlling the kinds of conversations people had,

directing their conversations to conversations about interesting articles with science factoid in them that people just accepted at face value.

People spouting off about how great Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen Pinker were. People having really boring conversations about devices all the time.

I see a lot of that happening here in Dublin now as a result of these tech companies.

And a sort of feeling arises here when regarding policies of the Irish government. It's one of bowing constantly to

developers and a class of tech loyalists. And even as a housing crisis has enveloped Dublin and a

wages crisis. And tech companies keep buying up land and historical buildings keep being demolished to make way for the tech companies and their proxy hotels and so-called co-living spaces.

The people that often fancy themselves as the opposition to this are fascist traditionalists in Ireland, who believe that cultural changes aren't just bound

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