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Context https://unherd.com/newsroom/peter-thiel-wokeness-is-like-wahhabism/
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#EventLibertopiaConference2010
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgH7Lv2gQdk&t=290s
"I think um technology is this incredible alternative to politics and uh and you know there are a number of different technologies we can outline but the the task in this world where politics has become so broken and so dysfunctional is to find a way to escape from it it's not a way to fix it is a way to escape and uh there are you know a number of different options I think the uh the promising one of the 1990s and this last decade has been to escape onto the Internet and to sort of create an alternate virtual reality uh questions of course is still how does it intersect with the real world there are I think escaping to outer space um is a promise uh although I think the space technology is not quite there so I think that's sort of for the second half of the 21st century I think we can try to uh you know create autonomous countries on oceans underwater all sorts of other spaces but I think technology is the vehicle for how we should um we should be looking to uh to escape and move beyond uh beyond politics as we find it today um I want to uh offer two quick thought two basic thoughts and then open it a little bit of discussion and debate on um the limits of this so I sort of one thought on um a caveat to this technology as an alternative and then end with the caveat to the caveat so the big caveat to uh technology as a standalone autonomous force is that politics is going to try to stop it and I think we should not underestimate the degree to which there is a race in our society between politics and technology and it's an very open question whether technology is going to succeed on its own in escaping from the black hole of politics or whether uh somehow the system will collapse in on itself and I think you know I think actually the correct in a sense attitude... "
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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkOConnell "If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be 'the Future'. Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine...
...he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his public musings about the incompatibility of freedom and democracy, and for expressing interest - as though enthusiastically pursuing the clunkiest possible metaphor for capitalism at its most vampiric - in a therapy involving transfusions of blood from young people as a potential means of reversing the ageing process. But in another, deeper sense, he is pure symbol: less a person than a shell company for a diversified portfolio of anxieties about the future, a human emblem of the moral vortex at the centre of the market.
And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse.
Because this is the role that New Zealand now plays in our unfurling cultural fever dream: an island haven amid a rising tide of apocalyptic unease."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand
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#VlogTheMajorityReportSamSeder [channel ] [Wikipedia ] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNOMjH-3gfU
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#MagazineUSTheAmericanProspect "According to Zack Rosen, founder of California YIMBY and the Abundance Network, the problem with politics is Americans being too involved. Bemoaning the rise of small-dollar political donations in fundraising documents leaked to the Prospect, Rosen is blunt: 'Small dollar internet fundraising makes politics dumber.' Rosen misses what he considers to be a bygone era of elite dominance. Lamenting the current state of democratized influence, Rosen says 'the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines.'"
https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/
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#AdvocacyUSAbundanceNetworkZackRosen https://www.abundancenetwork.com/who-we-are/
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