[biorach]

> With a skepticism towards consensus, Thiel says: “We always think that democracy is a good thing, and in a Democracy, the majority is more right than wrong. 51% is more right than 49%. 70% is even more right. But if you get to 99.9%, maybe that’s totally right — or maybe you’re in North Korea.”

This is inane and pretentious.

I’ve yet to see anything from this so-called intellectual that isn’t superficial theorising wrapped in a cloth of obscure cant, or millenarian nonsense.

[PaulHoule]

That whole mimetic thing drives me up the wall. What do you care what people think?

[oliculipolicula]

I try not to let Thiel drive me. How that could work is by conceiving of him as a friend or even lover (not mildly successful, obviously, but I try)

He's done things he won't ever write about, that surprise me. Like using hafus for propaganda. Planting his own people (and most who get upset by mimetics only think they know who these are) in the audience. This guy understands his enemies deeper than the enemies understand themselves. Maybe even runs _their_ propaganda by _multiple_ frontier instances _after_ analysing it himself

(In the postGPT era, his own literary outpu-- uh, side-effects*-- therefore has to drop)

If I have to be honest.. I'd need "medical aids" to think about his thoughts in good faith.. so far I have not _felt_ such a need

(Maybe bc I've not felt myself to identify with his enemy.. [[Allez CH!!]])

*The writings/speeches are meant to teach only as a bonus: would this "fact" work as a band-aid?

[PaulHoule]

I don’t have a problem with Thiel so much, like he is on a strange journey, OK. It is all the rest of the people who play at being an NPC that bother me.

Like if the author of that piece is getting paid by Thiel to take that stance I say bully for them. If anyone actually cares about “The Secret” I feel bad for them. It is the Instagram models who all look the same (they really exist I see them at Crunch), the uncritical thinkers in the cult of Scott Alexander, etc.

Back before the wheels came off YOShInOn I did have it look at articles from Catholic magazines and hoped something from a religious point of view would be worth posting and never quite did it. Like these people are too busy chasing each other’s tails and the illusions of the contemporary right to listen to that still quiet voice. [1]

To me the “good news” which is not a secret at all is that you can recover what you lost when the soldiers and the scribes of the empire [2] came to your ancestor’s village long ago. I don’t have to pay to get two stalkers on HN and I “go out” with a glamour that had five people approach me yesterday and the materials cost is under $100 unless you count a camera with Sony’s best lens.

[1] oddly after I got my contract and went looking for pagan coreligionists I’ve made friends with a lot of Protestant ministers but you do find odd bedfellows, like as a kid my best friend’s mom was a witch in one of those embarrassingly heteronormative Gardnerian covens but she was also into right-wing Christianity and took me to what I thought was a Catholic mass but was really a Samhain.

[2] in the name of Nero, Hirohito, Huang, Victoria, Roosevelt or Palpatine it is the same “empire”

[zhouzhao]

The article is just pure ragebait