Discussion
"Even in the ... Sesame Street and Muppet Show workshop ... I went in there and I thought, when I first got there, these folks wouldn't be employable in Silicon Valley where I just came from. It's a corporation, it's all rigid and organised. But here, Jim [Henson] loved what everybody could bring, and he wanted them to be themselves. And it didn't take me long to realise, this is a gift."
#DavidGoelz, 2026
https://movieoubliette.com/episode.html?id=6a272bf16642088a1066cb00
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Goelz is talking about the 1970s, when he first started working with Henson. Silicon Valley was also a totalitarian, military-industrial hellscape back then, before the net existed at all, and years before the web and mainstreaming.
It seems to be trendy right now to blame the technofascism we get from SV on the influence of the net. But it's the other way around. SV corporations have been a millstone around the neck of the web from the start, intentionally limiting its potential.
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