> Do you really think a politician appealing to an imagined past is somehow unique or novel or goes unrecognized by the press? "Make X Great Again" is the oldes

> Do you really think a politician appealing to an imagined past is somehow unique or novel or goes unrecognized by the press? "Make X Great Again" is the oldest political slogan, ever. Can you restate this. I cannot parse all of what you're saying. I think I have the gist of it so I'll make this comment: Thiel is very consistent. He is not insane. I have been watching the guy talk, reading his essays for a decade. I don't know him personally, but I do know his ideas. They stay the same. It is a coherant worldview that does explain his actions in a concrete way. "Opportunist" is not a good characterization of Thiel. An opportunist is somebody who can go back and forth, a weathervane. Thiel has very concrete, fixed ideas of what is going on. He does not think reality is subjective. Just objective with many complex interwoven layers. In other words, his actions are not random. They are guided by a central narrative. That is what my essay is trying to explain. It is extremely difficult because most people simply do not really grasp what he is saying, the concepts just slide out of their brains because their frame of reference is utterly orthogonal to Thiel's one.