Great read! Great comeback from your last post to which I had the same reaction that Eric Weinstein did to Prince Andrew's interview: what was that? (Weinstein got annoying with that question in a way that only Weinstein can, but I digress.) I'm still trying to figure it out. Are you playing "4D chess" or whatever the expression is? I simply refuse to take your Biden articles at face value. I can process leaving the Trump party, but joining the Biden one makes no sense. OK, sure, one should do his best to support the sitting president, regardless of party affiliation, but you are doing more than your very best. To me, Biden is like a time-out, a patch until people figure out, what the real solution is going to be. I'm still trying to convince myself that you were initially writing an Onion piece for shits and giggles and simply got side-tracked. I mean eccentric wealthy people sometimes do weird things. Am I right?
I like the sound of Sensei Thiel though and I agree that Thiel makes it quite difficult to see him as a "good guy". I think, ultimately, it comes down to a question of faith. Once someone starts meddling in international politics, it's very hard to figure out what's real or not. I simply don't know enough. But I still have faith in him based on his faith, which also happens to be my faith, his track record, and the way he communicates. Sure, there's always a chance that someone's a genius crook – and you keep writing very engaging pieces about people just like that – but I still give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm still not sure what will make me change my mind though. A violent insurrection with him leading the charge? What's your point of new return on Thiel? With Trump I just got tried of the constant Dr. Strangelove environment, where extremely serious matters are treated in the most unserious manner possible. There are too many moving parts; he could start a sequence of events he cannot undo. That was my biggest fear with him. Of course, the radical left seems to treat the most unserious matters in the most serious manner possible, so I guess there's the rub. Trump's trajectory is somewhat similar to Jordan Peterson's trajectory, or the trajectory of any idea or famous person. Eventually the internal contradictions are revealed, the thesis becomes the antithesis, hubris and mimetic rivalry take over, and the opposites become alike, that is memes of themselves. I've got no clue where we're headed here. I know what I'd like though. I'd like a return to real people. Enough of these memes.
Great read! Great comeback from your last post to which I had the same reaction that Eric Weinstein did to Prince Andrew's interview: what was that? (Weinstein got annoying with that question in a way that only Weinstein can, but I digress.) I'm still trying to figure it out. Are you playing "4D chess" or whatever the expression is? I simply refuse to take your Biden articles at face value. I can process leaving the Trump party, but joining the Biden one makes no sense. OK, sure, one should do his best to support the sitting president, regardless of party affiliation, but you are doing more than your very best. To me, Biden is like a time-out, a patch until people figure out, what the real solution is going to be. I'm still trying to convince myself that you were initially writing an Onion piece for shits and giggles and simply got side-tracked. I mean eccentric wealthy people sometimes do weird things. Am I right?
I like the sound of Sensei Thiel though and I agree that Thiel makes it quite difficult to see him as a "good guy". I think, ultimately, it comes down to a question of faith. Once someone starts meddling in international politics, it's very hard to figure out what's real or not. I simply don't know enough. But I still have faith in him based on his faith, which also happens to be my faith, his track record, and the way he communicates. Sure, there's always a chance that someone's a genius crook – and you keep writing very engaging pieces about people just like that – but I still give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm still not sure what will make me change my mind though. A violent insurrection with him leading the charge? What's your point of new return on Thiel? With Trump I just got tried of the constant Dr. Strangelove environment, where extremely serious matters are treated in the most unserious manner possible. There are too many moving parts; he could start a sequence of events he cannot undo. That was my biggest fear with him. Of course, the radical left seems to treat the most unserious matters in the most serious manner possible, so I guess there's the rub. Trump's trajectory is somewhat similar to Jordan Peterson's trajectory, or the trajectory of any idea or famous person. Eventually the internal contradictions are revealed, the thesis becomes the antithesis, hubris and mimetic rivalry take over, and the opposites become alike, that is memes of themselves. I've got no clue where we're headed here. I know what I'd like though. I'd like a return to real people. Enough of these memes.