Thiel has a valid point about the failure if higher education to push boundaries so that our societies can grow. Mis-understood ethics and the pressure of money on education have stalled or rolled back our education’s main purposes: to teach an empty mind to become an open mind while being able to entertain ideas with which we do not agree.
Having said that, I have listened to Thiel speak about the direction he believes western society needs to go: techno-feudalism. And he sees himself as one of the new techo-kings.
Unfortunately, he also wants to be one of the kings at Megiddo, on the last day. He has no compunction about sacrificing lives to hasten the arrival of that day. Watch the “Uncommon Knowledge” videos on YouTube
People like Thiel pose the greatest existential threat to our continued survival as a species on this planet: the power he draws from the unlimited wealth he has access to is as dangerous as the nuclear arsenals around the world, because he has no one other than himself to regulate the use of that power.
Thiel has a valid point about the failure if higher education to push boundaries so that our societies can grow. Mis-understood ethics and the pressure of money on education have stalled or rolled back our education’s main purposes: to teach an empty mind to become an open mind while being able to entertain ideas with which we do not agree.
Having said that, I have listened to Thiel speak about the direction he believes western society needs to go: techno-feudalism. And he sees himself as one of the new techo-kings.
Unfortunately, he also wants to be one of the kings at Megiddo, on the last day. He has no compunction about sacrificing lives to hasten the arrival of that day. Watch the “Uncommon Knowledge” videos on YouTube
People like Thiel pose the greatest existential threat to our continued survival as a species on this planet: the power he draws from the unlimited wealth he has access to is as dangerous as the nuclear arsenals around the world, because he has no one other than himself to regulate the use of that power.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.