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Why Peter Thiel Fears “Star Trek”
- tokenizer 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBleglF94CA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBleglF94CA TLDW: Star Trek is exactly what Thiel describes: Utopian drivel. DS9 actually abandoned a lot of that idealism for something more realistic, and confronted this issue in an episode called: "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River".
- devoply 10y agoStar Trek in many ways does not make any sense. You have all these crew members on a ship that are miserable. They could be living much more happier lives somewhere else. But out of some weird lost sense of duty they are all alone on this star ship running around doing the federation's bidding. Why? What's so compelling to get these people to make themselves miserable when they could do anything else at all that they wanted to. Like in DS9, the captain's father is running a creole restaurant. That's a much better way of making a living than the shit these idiots are doing. And they complain about being lonely and miserable more than once in TNG and TOS. But yet they keep on. For years, if not a lifetime. No family. No purpose but the trek.
- namlem 10y agoHow are they miserable? Most of them seem happy to be there. There are a number of examples of crew members choosing to remain on the Enterprise instead of taking cashier jobs because of the adventure of it.
- devoply 10y agoThe Enterprise is either a military vessel or a business vessel. The federation is a hierarchical corporate entity. In rhetoric it is benevolent. In reality they are constantly fighting wars. The Enterprise and its crew are constantly put in harm's way. They should all have some sort of PTSD by now, but magically don't. So yes they seem happy, but really what are they living for? Exploration and adventure, well that's all nice but eventually you actually want a life. Work is not life, and living on the Enterprise is not really living. It seems that you are on duty 24/7.
- chmaynard 10y agoPeter Thiel strikes me as a sucessful investor and deal-maker posing as an intellectual. His opinions carry a kind of gravitas in the Valley, but his constricted world view seems rather cold and one-dimensional.
- lhnz 10y agoThe reason he's considered an intellectual is that he has intellectual achievements. It's not posture since one can read his Wikipedia page and quickly realise that he's more intellectual than most other VCs. Likely better at Chess, Philosophy, etc.
- RichardHeart 10y agoHow many other billionaires have books out focused on getting you to start a business focused on something no one else is?
- namlem 10y agoExcept for the fact that he's never in tuned anything. He just rides the coattails of real inventors.