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

spike spike66 at att.net
Tue Nov 26 17:48:46 UTC 2013


>... On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
Subject: Re: [ExI] [tp] Thiel, Anissimov and Neo-reactionary Monarchism

On 2013-11-25 14:25, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

>... might explain the inclusion of Peter Thiel - if there wasn't at least
one rich guy in the mess, it would not be more exciting than other groups
with weird ideas (he seems to be a popular target for nasty claims).

>...Overall, an interesting read. The main problem with it is of course that
seeing problems with democracy or other current institutions doesn't
automatically mean you are in favour of monarchy or are reactionary...
--
Dr Anders Sandberg
_______________________________________________

Ja, that is what I concluded too Anders.  The article felt like it carried
the unstated assumption that world socialism is the future, therefore anyone
who isn't for world socialism must be reactionary.  I have read Peter
Thiel's comments and attended his lectures; I can calmly assure you that man
is anything but reactionary.  He has a crystal clear view of the future.  In
some ways we could argue that socialists are the reactionaries. Margaret
Thatcher has so eloquently identified its shortcoming: it works fine until
they run out of other people's money.

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.

COOL!

spike  




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