I dunno. To me, Thiel sounds like just another “expert” stuck in the 19th century. That mindset made perfect sense in the long era of knowledge scarcity. But we no longer live in that old era, but in a new era characterized by knowledge exploding in every direction. People like Thiel don’t seem to grasp that we can’t just take a philosophy from one era and slap it down on a very different era, and expect everything to continue working.
Superabundance can be erased in literally 30 minutes. A well established fact that we know intellectually, but seem completely incapable of facing emotionally. And so we just ignore it, and cling blindly to the hero stories of the 19th century.
I dunno. To me, Thiel sounds like just another “expert” stuck in the 19th century. That mindset made perfect sense in the long era of knowledge scarcity. But we no longer live in that old era, but in a new era characterized by knowledge exploding in every direction. People like Thiel don’t seem to grasp that we can’t just take a philosophy from one era and slap it down on a very different era, and expect everything to continue working.
Superabundance can be erased in literally 30 minutes. A well established fact that we know intellectually, but seem completely incapable of facing emotionally. And so we just ignore it, and cling blindly to the hero stories of the 19th century.