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The author is Wolf Tivy, a cofounder of Palladium Magazine. Palladium Magazine is funded by Peter Thiel. The other cofounder of Palladium is Jonah Bennett; he n
by jonstewart 5y ago
The author is Wolf Tivy, a cofounder of Palladium Magazine. Palladium Magazine is funded by Peter Thiel. The other cofounder of Palladium is Jonah Bennett; he now works at a stealth web3 startup and he says on his website he’s a political moderate. However, he also used to work at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller and pal around with white nationalists and neoreactionaries. He resigned from Palladium after those ties and several hateful emails came to light: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/04/emails-reveal-identity-longtime-white-nationalist-propagandist-onetime-conservative-insider https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/04/emails-reveal...
- vmception 5y agoWhy dont we like Peter Theil? A couple of interesting things and people have come out of the Theil fellowship I don't personally think he went far enough to be an anathema as I would also consider leveraging political standing in any society where there are power vacuums, assuming his foray into courting a conservative administration is why people still dont like him
- wbsss4412 5y agoForay implies it was a break from his previous trajectory. He founded a mass surveillance company and is generally right wing/conservative.
- hidudeurcool 5y ago
- blindmute 5y agoHow does this relate to the content of the article?
- smsm42 5y agoAnd this concludes our demo of "guilt by association" concept.
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- deepakkarki 5y agoHow is this relevant to the article?
- meheleventyone 5y agoThat’s gives context for who should, and what greater purpose they should quit their jobs for. It’s gussied up a bit in the article but it’s still there in the calls for a leisure class, references to elites, “traditional” relationship values and so on. It’s not a neutral article on the value of following your dreams.
- vmception 5y ago“Do you feel excluded? Good its working”
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoI started to think that the article _might_ have a certain political slant after coming across these phrases: "problems of governance from beyond the established liberal democratic paradigm" ... " the lone overman" ... "Growth Through Struggle" .. "your cosmic duty and win glory only in the bold attempt" ... "our society has been so stagnant and uncreative ... We chose the path of comfort... In our cowardice, we turned away" Now, what do those stirring words remind you of?
- smsm42 5y agoOf course the guy who wants to find his own path and share his ideas is literally Hitler. If you ask "how ridiculous ideological bubbles can be", the answer is - this ridiculous.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> guy who wants to find his own path is literally Hitler Not an accurate summary.
- LAC-Tech 5y ago
- tonyj 5y agoThat's interesting context, but does that meaningfully change the message of this article?
- twobitshifter 5y agoI think so: he used his personal example to say follow your dreams, but he followed his dreams with the backing of Peter Theil. If you were thinking you could start an online magazine too after reading this article it’s a nice reality check.
- SirHound 5y agoIs there a problem with interesting context?
- MandieD 5y agoIt's a bit easier to boldly follow one's philosophical dreams when said dreams line up nicely with what a billionaire is interested in funding.
- smsm42 5y agoYou do know that a lot of culture and science is not actually funded by scientists, actors and musicians themselves? In fact, there are people that advocate such funding is so important that we need to have the state take money from people - even not billionaires, but people earning very average salaries - and direct these money into financing people that are following some or other kind of philosophical dreams? If you are aware of that, I would like to hear how comes you think when the millionaire - after paying all the money allocated for all of the above - still wishes to spend money on financing even more people pursuing philosophical dreams, there's something wrong and shameful in that? Is that because this time politicians did not intervene in the process?
- panza 5y agoWhat's your objection to the substance of the article?
- mlatu 5y ago> Thiel ah, that really explains everything. i have no more questions, thank you
- finite_jest 5y agoThat is just banal ad hominem and guilt by association.
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoThere was a news outlet around in the last few years called the knife of Aristotle which always seemed a little off to me. I did some research into it and found out the senior editor and many of the board were associated with NXIVM. This didn’t affect affect the veracity of their articles, which I found were well written, but the association of their company with unsavoury people should cause all but the most naive and callow to ask WHAT their agenda is. Similarly, this article is extremely pompous, faux-Nietzschean and comes directly from a media outlet owned by self proclaimed nationalists who are apparently also quite unsavoury. This should cause you concern and you should ask for what purpose such bare-faced propaganda is being pushed. Or, to put in plain Canadian English “birds of a shitfeather flock together”
- gr__or 5y agoHi Jon Stewart, big fan (wink wink) I was satisfied with this reaction from Jonah wrt the mailing list and such: https://medium.com/@thejonahbennett/statement-on-emails-83c5ebbad731 https://medium.com/@thejonahbennett/statement-on-emails-83c5... The Web3 stuff is making me more skeptical, but let's see!
- jonstewart 5y agoI’m not satisfied by it. There’s no real excuse as a grown up for associating with hate folks.