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Or that the article author is Managing Director of Thiel Capital.

I'll grant this is getting into Ad hominem territory, but I point it out because an 'it's all just a performance' viewpoint seems kind of worrying when you wield signifiant influence.

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Weinstein is very publicly in opposition to Thiel over the suitability of Trump for the presidency, but the fact that they both think about a concept like kayfaybe and its influence on serious public affairs, indicates something interesting about how they think about the forces at play in the world.

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