@peterthiel at his most intellectual: remarkable interview in NZZ (in German), spanning Silicon Valley's increasing infertility, economic stagnation, the future of Western societies, Marxist analysis, stoicism, identity politics, the role of politicshttps://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/peter-thiel-donald-trump-handelt-fuer-mich-zu-wenig-disruptiv-ld.1471818 …
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...individual and societal progress is not driven by acceptance of death or epicureanism (live every day as if it was your last), but by desire to shape the future, Strauss/European thought focuses on wisdom as terminal goal, but it should be instrumental to doing things
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...vision of the internet as an open place with privacy is over, users are now transparent and interaction is regulated, but state censorship would be even worse than present corporate censorship, entrepreneurship requires aiming at becoming a monopoly -> fear of totalitarianism
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