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Disruption depends on regarding people as participating in the business cycle who insist that they’re doing no such thing—another aspect of creative destruction that actually retains a lot of the idea’s Marxist DNA. And it depends on an extension of the sense in which the terms “monopoly” or “oligo…

The rhetoric of disruption frequently creates solidity, stability, and uniformity where they didn’t exist. Just as kvetching over political correctness often requires the invention of the restrictions and pieties which it sees itself as engaged in a titanic struggle against, so the disrupter portra…

Often enough, talk of disruption is a theodicy of hypercapitalism. Disruption is newness for people who are scared of genuine newness.