> Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle.

> Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle.” Where is this from? The quote marks make it sound like something one of them may have said or at least that is a well known quote, but the only references turned up by searching are this article. > These four men have long been regarded as technologically progressive heroes, but [not any more] This seems to be what's upset the author (a professor, what a shock). When they were progressive heros, no problem. Once they start doing things like publicly doubting the wisdom of the emeritus set, they become a Fab Four of autocrats who are single-handedly responsible for "post-truth reality". This article seems to have no real value or merit, it's just the progressive media/academic class doing a hit job on anyone it regards as an ideological traitor. It routinely descends into LLM-style gibberish hallucination, like when the author claims that interplanetary colonization is "an existential risk to the world in political, economic, and, perhaps most fundamentally, moral terms". Yep, Mars colonies are immoral. Really, who cares what some random self-proclaimed educator thinks? Just one of these four guys have done more for progress than the author and everyone like him ever will.