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On changing their mind
But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
Peter Thiel
Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters. Publishes nothing under his own name — his arguments reach people through books, essays in other outlets, and interviews.
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What they believe
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The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it.
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”
cato-unbound.orgSaid 13 Apr 2009This on korrents
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Changed their mind Freedom and democracy are not compatible -- a conclusion reached after two decades of changing his mind about how freedom is achieved.
Now But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
Said 13 Apr 2009This on korrents
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From one piece The Education of a Libertarian 4 beliefs · cato-unbound.org
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Their words
A better metaphor is that we are in a deadly race between politics and technology. The future will be much better or much worse, but the question of the future remains very open indeed.
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The future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism — the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can ignore the terrible arc of the political in our world.
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Because there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country; and for this reason I have focused my efforts on new technologies that may create a new space for freedom.
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The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it.politicslibertarianismdemocracy
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In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”
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The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it.
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”
The Education of a Libertarian Said 13 Apr 2009
With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change.
Because there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country; and for this reason I have focused my efforts on new technologies that may create a new space for freedom.
The Education of a Libertarian Said 13 Apr 2009
Technological utopianism is a temptation to resist: technology has no momentum or will of its own and guarantees nothing.
The future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism — the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can ignore the terrible arc of the political in our world.
The Education of a Libertarian Said 13 Apr 2009
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We are in a deadly race between politics and technology; the future will be much better or much worse, and it is still open.
A better metaphor is that we are in a deadly race between politics and technology. The future will be much better or much worse, but the question of the future remains very open indeed.
The Education of a Libertarian Said 13 Apr 2009
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