This is a tldr of an argument I've been developing that will take me several essays to unpack, so I'm not going to try to do it here.
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Okay I guess I'll say one thing: I'm pretty much 100% in favor of this outcome. There is a deep denial of a reality principle in any sort of "end of power" argument. Power is life itself. It doesn't end. It just rearranges itself.
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The one big thing you can learn about popular uprisings from history is that they change nothing unless the classes above have reasons to seek a reconfiguration of power at higher levels. They're just flash floods that drain away unless parties with more power capture them.
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Where they go wrong is assuming that the ones who were on top under the old configuration of power will/should continue to be on top in the new configuration of power. Just because "the people" will definitionally never be on top doesn't mean the top never changes.
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There is the well known Pareto circulation of elites theory (foxes and lions, basically liberal vs. conservatives), and in general, that's true. But there are times when new classes get activated and take power from both.
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Hmm... no. Thiel is fairly classic lion type I think. Not a new type of power-aspirant/haver.
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Thiel is pretty much a basic Republican with some surface sci-fi drama and pretensions to a radical political philosophy. To snowclone a different line: the parts that are new aren't important, the parts that are important aren't new.
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I'm familiar with it on backchannels. I think they matter much less than they think they do :D
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