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Palladium magazine was founded by Wolf Tivy and Jonah Bennett. It is funded by Peter Thiel. Jonah Bennett previously worked at The Daily Caller and he resigned
by jonstewart 4y ago
Palladium magazine was founded by Wolf Tivy and Jonah Bennett. It is funded by Peter Thiel. Jonah Bennett previously worked at The Daily Caller and he resigned from Palladium when it was discovered he had authored some racist messages and was friends with various white nationalists.
Samo Burja, the author, is undoubtedly a more serious and educated person. However, he promotes a “Great Founder Theory” which is not so very different from the old “great man theory” of history.
To a large extent, I applaud anyone who can make a good living grifting off of Thiel’s self-regard, but most political economy essays should be read skeptically, and doubly so for anything in Palladium.
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- panosfilianos 4y agoJournalism would be so much better with context like this. I wonder if there any initiatives that provide it. Maybe the blockchain would be of help here.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoI can't tell how many layers of irony this comment contains.
- CryptoPunk 4y agoThis context is quite biased by ideological preconceptions.
- donkeybeer 4y agoYou have to remember the basic idea behind a lot of these word salads is that "We need to return to kings and aristocracy" and that "Of course I am a high iq intellectual who will be the nobility and not a feudal worker, why is there any doubt?". Everything starts making sense then.
- zozbot234 4y agoThe idea of those who favor "kings and aristocracy" is more that we'll always have people around with more power than others (elites), and that formal transparency about who these people are ultimately improves accountability. Would you work for a faux "anarcho-tyrannyist" firm where you have no idea who the CEO is and who the managers are that can fire you or cut your salary?
- coliveira 4y agoWho guarantees the "kings and aristocrats" are really the ones pulling the strings? They are frequently just puppets.
- labster 4y agoPuppets of whom? The only (European) historical examples of puppet masters I can think of are the Church and other nobility — certainly no one from outside the class. If a merchant became powerful enough, they found a way to join the nobility, either directly or by marriage.
- 6510 4y agoWe are all just puppets enslaved by the processes we create and confused by our limited experience.
- natural_cruelty 4y ago
- tsunamifury 4y agoAll that can be true while palladium can also be one of the only publications that grapples with big theories and forecasts of geo politics and social shifts. Are there many others? FP seems more focused on essays targeted at an audience of one written for ver specific inside baseball reasons. HBR and the likes have become laughable top 10 lists and passing superficial junk.
- natural_cruelty 4y ago
- zozbot234 4y agoSometimes men (and women, for that matter) happen to be exactly at the right place and at the right time to tilt the balance of long-range historical outcomes. What's wrong with acknowledging those folks as "Great", if only as to their influence?
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- tsunamifury 4y agoAs noted above their notion is not great man theory. It’s that elites exist and hide and we should make their power structures more legible. It’s a solid concept imo. But also nothing about their podcasts seem so bad as to wash them away with one flippant comment.
- majormajor 4y agoJust curious then, how visible do they make their own connection to elites in the podcast or articles? Sounds like they're very much part of one of those power structures. I don't see any of that at a quick perusal of this article, it appears to be written as if it sits outside.
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- timmytokyo 4y agoJonah Bennett goes deep down the anti-semitic neoreactionary rabbit hole [1]. Interesting how Peter Thiel keeps funding these types of people [2]. [1] https://splinternews.com/leaked-emails-show-how-white-nationalists-have-infiltra-1837681245 https://splinternews.com/leaked-emails-show-how-white-nation... [2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...
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- CryptoPunk 4y agoAny source for Thiel being a fascist?
- usrn 4y ago
- beaconstudios 4y agoDepends on what you think is normal I guess. I'm not going to repeat the whole comment I posted elsewhere in this thread, but his allegiance with Trump, his association with Yarvin, and his protégé Blake Masters are pretty informative of his politics.
- usrn 4y agoHalf the country voted for Trump, do you really want to tell all of them they're in the same group as the Nazis? They might just take you at your word.
- beaconstudios 4y ago
- jollybean 4y agoPlease. I mean, yes, but we should be 'doubly skeptical' of everything from The Atlantic, the New Yorker, the NYT, Fox, Bloomberg and WSJ and Foreign Policy as well.
- Mizza 4y agoYes. I really wish more people knew that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief at the Atlantic, literally beat political prisoners bloody while he was an IDF prison guard at the world's largest detainment camp.
- selimthegrim 4y agoIt’s deleted now, or maybe on the internet archive, but one of the best rebuttals from Internet comments I’ve ever seen was on a Goldberg piece about the trope of neocon puppet masters claiming he had a superior spidey sense of what was anti-Semitic and what wasn’t. The killer punchline at the end was “Buck up, Geppetto!”
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- onesafari 4y agoWhat about the actual contents of the publication or article in question?
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- rabite 4y ago>Jonah Bennett previously worked at The Daily Caller and he resigned from Palladium when it was discovered he had authored some racist messages and was friends with various white nationalists. This is the very definition of ad hominem -- you don't want to confront the messages of the essay, so you try to discredit it by highlighting that one of its authors had opinions you disagree with.
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- jonstewart 4y agoI have no need to discredit Jonah Bennett--he did a fine job of that himself--and moreover he is not the author of the article. I will concede that my comment skates close to the ad hominem edge, but knowing about the publisher (as with Murdoch, Sulzberger, and Bezos, for Fox, NYT, WaPo respectively) seems useful nonetheless, for while it may be noble to argue about and discuss the ideas in the article in good faith, it's also worth asking whether Palladium is edited and published in good faith.
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- mbgerring 4y agoAlso worth pointing out that Samo Burja spent about a month before the Russian invasion of Ukraine insisting that everyone was underestimating the Russian military and that they would take Ukraine in a rout. Public intellectuals need to be constantly judged and re-evaluated in the light of their actual predictive capacity. Burja certainly presents as an intelligent person, but since I’ve been paying attention to him the value of his insight has been dubious.
- dredmorbius 4y agoLinks?
- someguydave 4y agoSorry, it is 2022 and simply labeling people as non-progressive is not interesting anymore.
- Apocryphon 4y agoLabeling them as crypto-monarchists is though. It’s actually a neat throwback to 2012 before the current polarized state of online discourse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6785801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6785801
- picsao 4y ago