Wow, that's possibly the bleakest set of opinions I've ever seen detailed.

I can't help but think that this is typical self-loathing and ensuing self-destruction turned towards society itself. I need to read his actual writing, though. I'm sure there's also some element of actively pandering towards people in power desperate to justify their hold through some ideology.

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gsf_emergency_2 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I can outbleak that! In 2 paragraphs!

Although it seems more robust in the long term*, anti-intellectualism probably has a cliff of adaptivity, just like academia, ideology, or indeed any collection of values

*The foundations of China's rise can ultimately be traced to the cultural revolution? Now we wait.

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g-b-r 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So you don't know that the vice-president's mentor completely agrees with him

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MangoToupe 2 days ago | parent [-]

Of course I know Thiel is probably one of the most evil people alive. But I suspect he's a lot more evil than he's let us know. But this guy seems to have built his career off of actively propagating resentment and hate. If you read about Thiel's upbringing it's entirely unsurprising the two get along so well.

CF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swakopmund#Until_Namibian_Inde...

> Swakomund was known for its continued glorification of Nazism after World War II, including the celebration of Hitler's birthday and "Heil Hitler" Nazi salutes given by residents. In 1976, The New York Times quoted a German working in a Swakopmund hotel who described the city as "more German than Germany". As of the 1980s, Nazi paraphernalia was available to buy in shops.

	▲	g-b-r 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I knew where he grew up

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zingababba 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Just read his Gray Mirror posts or watch a podcast with him. If you really want to get the full experience you need to go back to his unqualified reservations stuff but it can be VERY tedious.

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sorcerer-mar 2 days ago | parent [-]

He is simply not that smart nor that interesting. Just a mega cringe-lord loser who got the ear of other cringe-lord losers who happen to be unfathomably wealthy.

	▲	voidhorse a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it's amazing to me that any of these clowns consider themselves intelligent when they end up holding philosophical and political beliefs that the average high-schooler could tell you are completely wack. The natural consequence of the worship of financial success, strong isolationist tendencies, and social atomization. When you "don't rely on anyone else" and managed to make billions with your "own wits" anything you think must be genius or at least correct, right? It's insane how our current socioeconomic structure has effectively let men with the social maturity of twelve year olds gain absurd amounts of influence and power.