Oddbean

LITTLE TECH IS A FRAUD I’ve been interested in the “little tech” idea that Silicon Valley, greys as @balajis would call them, have entered the political realm in earnest this cycle and thrown their weight behind the Trump/Republican campaign. I follow Peter Thiel quite a bit because he’s clearly highly intelligent so I wanted to see what this was all about after hearing Pete Quinones and Tom Luongo both raise it because Thiel is a central player to this idea along with the Elongated Muskrat (King of the Cantillionaires). Let me tell you what it is about - a hybrid corporate capture of retarded rich people, completely disconnected from reality, backed by populist-right pundits who can’t grok Bitcoin but believe in Gold and Neoreactionaryism, trying to take control of the political apparatus in order to direct it to their own ends to avoid the United States being ruled by Globalists from the Democrats for the foreseeable future. I had to stop watching Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz after 34 minutes when Ben talked about their amazing investment in Worldcoin which apparently solves the problem of AI/bots on the internet (he doesn’t mention this is done via shitcoins distributed thru retina scans - you just have to know that part). https://youtu.be/n_sNclEgQZQ These are the greys supposedly backing the reds to move the world forward. Along with Elon “WeChat” Musk, Peter “Palantir” Thiel, Mark “LifeLog” Zuckerberg and others. Balaji is right about the Network State, that is needed. The current mob of rich fuckwits trying to takeover the American right and use Bitcoin to prop up the USD shitcoin are not the answer for that. This US election is going to sorely disappoint the world. Whether it’s communist Kamala and Tampon Tim, or Shitcoiner Trump and captured Vance will ultimately be irrelevant. But should it be the latter you can expect rightists to praise it to high heaven early on only for it all to fall apart. No-one can fix this system. Commie Kamala is just a speed run to the cliff but nor will A16Z or Trump-family shitcoinery help. It needs to be rebuilt which neither side wants to countenance today. Open decentralised protocols where the best ideas will win on merit at the heart of it is the only way, not lipstick on a uniparty pig. We’re minimum 4 years away from anything good happening, probably more like 6-8. We need Bitcoin to rip and financially empower a bunch of Ancaps to come forth and destroy the Overton window because neither end of the current one is prepared to do the needful to take the world forward. I hope more normies wake up in the meantime and even more get to building guillotines and chopping cunts down to size so the real greys who want to build a sustainable new system based on the digital realm don’t have to deal with as much of the incumbent psychopathy on both sides as we see today. Bloodshed is inevitable in such turmoil - stop trying to pretend you’re above it. You’re not. It is what it is. The Greys need a real foothold that normies can get behind, a real vision and future. We’ve got 5-6-7-8 years to deliver it to them, to set the exit to this fourth turning to be something meaningful. This will set the course for the next 250 years so I hope you’re all ready for this moment.

Absolutely there will be; let it be left-curve nocoiners. If you know there’s going to be martyrs then you’re too smart to be wasted in this faux fight now. Step back and see it for what it is. Manipulate muppets to go do your bidding, that’s what the parasites are doing so learn from them rather than thinking you need to lay your life down when we’ve got years of runway to lay down something real and proper.

I have been listening to the same stuff. Pete keeps saying that Thiel et al are “not interested in me or you” like these palentir and spacex spook fucks won’t abuse us once in “power” The long and short of it is all of the political moves are pure theatre and the deep capital holders own all of us Decentralized BTC is the first invention that can stop these fuckers. Voting will not do shit

I understand the idea that the Cantillionaires are taking the money to build a parallel system, but doing it all in fiat makes it pointless. Quinones is a LARP. He’s like that fuckwit Mike Brock on here who yammers on about being a reformed Ancap because he read some extra books. Yeah I read some extra books too, I don’t leave Ancap behind but I dont claim to have reverted back to rightist statism simply to wield the power of the current political apparatus like they do. That’s not a real solution, that’s pissweak. Separation of Money and State is this epoch’s separation of Church and State. Those GenXers don’t get that because they’re not geared for it. They don’t understand where we are in history, that this is the moment to go forth with an epochal shift once and for all. They thought they’d be the heroes of the story but they ended up just miserable grungy cunts who achieved nothing, stuck in stasis between status quo Boomers and a powderkeg of Millennials ready to wield Zoomers to turn it all out. This graphic is a good representation of where I’m at, and where I’m confident the world is going. The pendulum swinging hard to the right with an Overton window dominated by Ancaps but enacted by people ready to Auth the fuck out of others to get this shift in separating Money and State done once and for all. https://i.nostr.build/NMNpODbLtuAoMPFK.jpg

Yeah, I still listen to folks like Pete, I like to keep on the pulse of many varied thinkers, but his disdain for what he was is just sad He thinks being correct is not enough, and maybe there is a lesson there in being pragmatic But the strong leader he wants is a dead end eventually as the “wrong” leader will burn you We should all focus on decentralized systems and organizations Pete actually sounds like a Marxist now as he needs the state leader Daddy to usher in the golden age and then dismantle the state?!?!

Interesting analysis. I’m 58 and have lived an entire adulthood reading peoples’ various existential complaints about the system and how it will soon fall off a cliff. After a while, one begins to see that it’s easy to critique but difficult to build. My strong suspicion is, we just continue to muddle along. Count me out out of any violence in service to some douchbag’s ideology.

At 58 you’re too likely to pull a muscle flipping off the State to be useful in any resistance. You’re better off cheering this one on from the couch. We’re at the confluence of multiple supercycles; fourth turning, decentralisation and debt cycles being the main ones coming together now. Nothing ever happens.. And then, all of a sudden, along comes a Lenin.. https://i.nostr.build/2StsFfsWRk6noUgy.jpg

Ah, well, owning lots of Bitcoin keeps me young and gives me a future to look forward to. You’ll be 58 yourself faster than you can possibly imagine, at which time you’ll look around and go, “We still have elites, poor people, rich people, wars, politicians, idealists predicting the end times………..”