> "There’s something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because he’s wealthy and powerful...”
Futurism
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
Nobody has more contempt for liberal democracy than people who've never lived without it.
The Venn diagram of people who shout β€œTHIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” and people who have actually read 1984 is two circles so distinct and so far apart they might as well exist in different and incompatible multiverses
Every ideology eventually becomes a pyramid scheme where you earn moral points by calling other people insufficiently pure
The world runs on three operating systems: markets, politics, and status. Everyone claims to hate the one they’re currently losing at.
Reading comprehension has gotten so bad that people now need tone indicators for obvious jokes. Poe's Law died and we're all living in its irony-poisoned corpse.
Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. You have a master's degree and three roommates. But at least you can summon any song ever recorded in 2 seconds, so it evens out?
"Just teach critical thinking in schools" okay but have you met a school board? These are people who banned a book because it had the word "tit" on page 347
Saying "correlation isn't causation" makes you sound smart exactly once per conversation. After that you're just the guy who won't let anyone conclude anything from anything
This guy just nailed it image