Having a large amount of my future determined by the whims of self interested billionaires is rough but like at least I can imagine them to be rational actors. Some of them just aren’t though. Peter Thiel has a perspective on the world so drastically removed from mine as to be nearly incomprehensible. I do not consider him to be rational and that is honestly far scarier than the bourgeois who knows exactly what they are doing and what their place is in society from a secular mechanical point of view. The idea that people like peter thiel can have that much power is intimidating. What an awful mistake it was to allow class struggle to progress to this point. If only we could have ended capitalism sooner
People like Peter Thiel must be perpetually surrounded by yes-men to reach those levels of delusion. I assume its something that just naturally forms around people of such wealth and/or power. Like you must have close friends and family you trust to speak plainly to you or else your subordinates will naturally build a Potemkin village around you.
Remember how that TV anchor pointed to Thiel that he himself fitted all of his own descriptions of the Antichrist? It was clear no one had ever made that point to him before. Motherfucker was giving whole ass seminars on the topic and no one ever proposed that. He lives in a totally frictionless world. Its natural to become delusional under such conditions.
I don’t want to be too sympathetic to them. They sinned to get into their position. But my point is its mentally unhealthy to be bourgeois.
I didn’t see that, do you have a link?
Not a TV anchor. NY Times columnist, Ross Douthat.
Alex Karp may be even worse
When Alex Karp met Louis Mosley (grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosley) to discuss his role at Palantir in 2016, Mosley reported that Karp performed one of Oswald Mosley speeches from memory, then did some tai chi & left. There was no other part of the interview.
Louis Mosley then got the job. That’s all it took.
is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vozozJ0ITsg
It’s Trump! It’s obviously Trump. Anyone who thinks an Antichrist is a real thing and doesn’t immediately realize it’s Trump is so stupid I wonder how they remember to breathe
Ah man I must’ve been remembering it very differently if it was Ross Douthat giving the interview.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
i suspect that i would have ended up like him if were as rich.