> Thiel writes: “one may define a “liberal” as someone who knows nothing of the past and of this history of violence, and still holds to the Enlightenment view of the natural goodness of humanity.”

> I have to say, I think this describes my worldview pretty well (although I would argue that in my limited knowledge of the past, it does seem to me like an increasing level of abundance and education can ward off violence pretty well).

I’m surprised the author (oh, hi submitter!) hasn’t clued in that perhaps it’s time to put blogs to the side and learn a bit more about history and how today came to be prior to attempting to “understand” Peter Thiel.

The thinly veiled “weird” memery going around as of late in the subtitle is trite and immediately, in my mind, devalues the blog post. It basically signals “this isn’t an objective attempt to understand as much as it is me taking the piss out on Peter Thiel.”

I gained no new knowledge about the guy, unfortunately. Hyper focused on trump and the like as usual and treats the guy like he’s a 1D political villain. So this was essentially empty content.

Put another way, I’ve seen much better shitposts about Thiel than “this guy thinks he’s smarter than everyone else.”