It’s the same reason why libertarianism is so popular in Silicon Valley. Billionaires want and can afford complete freedom from the government. Including taxes,

It’s the same reason why libertarianism is so popular in Silicon Valley. Billionaires want and can afford complete freedom from the government. Including taxes, including regulations, including responsibility for the consequences of their actions. So they will seek out any teaching that (if corrupted far enough) will justify those desires and actions. But they’re just as happy to enforce all the things they hate on you, because their belief is a corruption of libertarianism. They don’t actually believe it, it’s just an excuse to not pay taxes. Like libertarianism, SV has a way of taking exactly what they want from Zen and leaving the rest of the beliefs lying in a pile behind them. The Zen teacher Les Kaye famously said about Steve Jobs that he understood “the art, not the heart” of Zen. If SV really cared about Zen, would we have unskippable ads? Would we have “like” buttons? Would we have auto-playing Netflix movies while you’re merely sitting still in a menu? They don’t care about Zen. They never have. What they care about is making themselves feel better about the horribly un-Zen-like things they inflict on their audiences. Zen is just a coping mechanism to stroke their ego a little more.