[ExI] [tp] Thiel, Anissimov and Neo-reactionary Monarchism

Tomaz Kristan protokol2020 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 09:54:04 UTC 2013


>  The problem with you technophiles is you have no idea about history or
real-world politics.

Every day, there is less and less importance out of the technology area.
These doors are closing,

And by technology I don't talk about iPhones. At least not in the first
place.

The so called real world politics will be a fish with no water.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:57 AM, ddraig <ddraig at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 November 2013 04:48, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> We get unnecessarily tangled up in racys and archys today, monarchy,
>> aristocracy, anarchy, yakkity-yak-acy, and bla-blarchy, but at the end of
>> the day, the guy with the money is the ruler, and the guy with the
>> technology has the money, so everything melts down to technocracy.
>>
>
>
> The problem with you technophiles is you have no idea about history or
> real-world politics.  Traditionally, Spike, the most vicious and cunning
> winds up at the top, and he then hires or coerces the one with the
> technology.  If you applied your ideas to entire cultures, then, yes, the
> one with the technology wins (bronze, iron, stirrups, guns, free market
> capitalism) but the people at the top aren't always the ones with the
> technology, they are invariably the most politically adept (Stalin vs
> Trotsky).  Big, big difference.
>
> http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
>
> Dwayne
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