Peter Thiel literally wrote a fuckin essay on why he thinks democracy isn’t compatible with what he calls “freedom”.
“Democracy prevents me from doing everything I want to do without consequences” —Thiel
I hate that assholes like this have so much influence over our lives.
This is seriously messed up:
He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”
Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance
That’s a real thing that someone said?
Apparently. It’s also roughly the plot to The Matrix. And to Halo4, to an extent. And that episode of Black Mirror
thats the idea. We will hook up people to use them like batteries and tell everyone on the outside its not horrible, painful, torture because we have them in a virtual utopia. Can I go to the utopia. no its just for bad people.
Pretty much “Science fiction warns us of the evils of building the Torment Nexus. Let’s tell people why a Torment Nexus is really great and build one!”
The only possible positive use for the torment nexus is to put torment nexus supporters in it.
I really fucking hate that they steal their company names from Tolkien.
yeah it is called fascism
Right? Who is surprised the openly fascist fascists are fascists? Peter Thiel was a fascist in college. Elon Musk talks about eugenics all the time. It’s not like they’ve kept their political views a secret.
I want to support the SAME people that Billionaire’s support because Billionaires HISTORICALLY only do what’s BEST for the WORKING Class like me!
This would make for a good dystopic movie. I do not want to live in it.
