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Silicon Valley may have an arrogance problem, but Wall Street, DC, Hollywood, and the mainstream media have pretty much ruined the United States of America, so pardon me for being mostly unmoved when an ancient and beholden behemoth of the Murdochian trumpet parade decides to bellow it.

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I think there is an arrogance problem, and it arises when MBAs from Ivy League schools, lawyers who worked their way through the byzantine federal government legal and lobbying system, Hollywood moguls who have mostly fueled their careers on deceptive accounting, and heads of large moribund media organizations, suddenly decide that they need to get in on this whole tech thing, almost invariably at the executive level, yet lack even basic knowledge of how computers, the internet, software, or for that matter, online marketing, work.

You left engineers who think their command of technology makes them superior to all of these "recent" luddite invaders off the list. Your comment reflects the essence of what a large part of the article criticizes, an insular technologist culture that feels most of its ailments come from without. I agree that I've seen some of the folks you mention parading around, but have run into even more technology folks who think their hot new startup is far more important than anything else someone could be working on.

Actually I agree with you somewhat, but in my experience a lot of what they're doing is trying to hype their thing, because that's the game they're playing. Underneath there's a huge amount of self-doubt.

Whereas the people I'm talking about, underneath there's a huge amount of noblesse oblige.

Rupert Murdoch seems to love Silicon Valley.

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/389132604311474176

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