@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 …
... economic failure means risk to democracy. There is little danger of fascism or communism right now because these are youth movements and western societies are over aged, but democratic institutions won't last without economic growth
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... egalitarianism does not remove conflict but intensifies it (see René Girard), and identity politics distracts from economic stagnation and leads to increased tribalism and separation within society, not to increased equality. But the US will get over this eventually.
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... stagnation began in the 1970ies, when the left moved from economy to culture, lost its economic understanding and regressed to childishness. The Green movement is leftist paternalism, telling people what to do to be good. We'll have to understand 70ies to understand today.
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