[Florin_Andrei]

What is generally known as ethics acts as a safeguard against random individuals running rampant and inflicting tremendous damage on society for personal gain.

In a broad context, Thiel acts like someone who has no such safeguards. The future he's pushing the world towards is the caricatural dystopia from Back To The Future (which was originally meant to lampoon Trump-like characters). Fortunately, he will probably fail.

If you don't see this at all, it's probably time to ask yourself just how similar to Thiel you actually are.

[intro-b]

what kind of future do you think Thiel is pushing the world towards?

a lot of his writing involving Girard and other political philosophers reads as studying mimetic desire as a means of avoiding absolute total war in society and maintaining the hegemony of what he believes to be "enlightenment values" — destruction and unnecessary suffering is generally the antithesis of those beliefs

again, I don't even personally have to agree with all his ideas and writings to want to have a discussion about it

[mistrial9]

"avoiding absolute total war in society" sounds like the rhetoric of the Holy Roman Empire ..

[Applejinx]

Dark Enlightenment thinking isn't far off that Holy Roman Empire. It's essentially an embracing of monarchy and caste, with rule belonging to the Peter Thiels of the world, based on various ways they can demonstrate their ability to claim that throne.

[xfhgjxcfgh]

I'd greatly appreciate an example of someone arguing that we should "[embrace] of monarchy and caste".

[HKH2]

Tucker Carlson interviewed Curtis Yarvin recently and they did touch on monarchism. It's a fairly accessible conversation.

[Florin_Andrei]

> Tucker Carlson

That's the moment when reality-based folks stop listening to what you're saying.