[s_kilk]

> where's Peter Thiel in all this?

The evidence seems to suggest Thiel has gotten in with the "throne and altar" crowd, the Neo-Reactionaries and self-described "Dark Enlightenment".

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein

How that intersects with his techy leanings, I don't really know, it's very possible that he's being thrown overboard as you describe.

[eli_gottlieb]

Bloody hell, I swear we're living in the pulpiest political-thriller novel I've ever fucking heard of.

[pault]

I don't want to go too far off topic, but every time I turn on the news lately I feel like I'm stuck in a dystopian cyberpunk thriller. Funny how we never got the flying cars and jetpacks from our 20th century utopian sci-fi, but the Phillip K Dicks and William Gibsons seem to be right on the money.

[sgift]

Cyberpunk promised us high tech and low life. Good job, we got at least one of these.

[tankenmate]

Low life is easier to distribute than high tech. The future is already here...

[PeachPlum]

The news, on TV. Where did you find that?

[api]

My personal theory for a while has been that the world actually did end in 2000. We are living in a parody alternate dimension where the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks. This timeline is like a show that's been renewed for one season too many.

[rbanffy]

> the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks

Do you have any idea how much an actual god costs?! This is the best we could manage. Be grateful this low-budget universe is still here.

[supernumerary]

I like to think of Thiel as someone who has access to Facebook, rather than a person. Besides - It's not clear how much of a person is left in the face of such a pool of legitimate signals.

The tendency of the signals to reach a resonant frequency is another matter...

Basically, follow Thiel, he wasn't wrong throwing down with Trump ... another way of saying it ... I don't think it was because of what he believes in.