Peter Thiel Has Wanted To End Politics For A Long Time

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Peter Thiel, by far the wettest of our big, beautiful oligarchs, wants what every libertarian wants: To strap himself to a rocket and blast off to somewhere far away from the filthy, writhing masses of everyday people going about their lives, somewhere laws and politics don’t exist and human beings can be properly exploited by those with the power and money and resources. That Thiel has more power and money and resources than (almost) anyone in human history is merely coincidental. The sweaty man has principles, after all. Consider subscribing to BFT and join the growing BFT discord, a millennial retirement home where we talk politics, sports, culture, and other stuff. Like every tech-fascist in the third decade of the 21st Century, Thiel is bored out of his fucking mind. He wants something to do. The designed frictionlessness of the 2020s has made life boring for everyone. Subscribe now Imagine how boring life is when you have more money than you could spend in a thousand lifetimes. In ten thousand. In a million. That’s Thiel and Musk and Zuckerberg and Altman and the rest of the Silicon Valley futurist ghouls: So bored they have decided to destroy the world and live forever as a hobby. I would have suggested golf or pickleball. Maybe both. They have the time. Thiel way back in 2009 wrote an essay for the librarian Cato Institute about some of the crazy shit he might do if he one day had the means. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .