Daub (Stanford professional commentator) has analyzed his mindset. He explains Thiel's attraction to esotericism: >Girard’s ideas are another flyby between te

Daub (Stanford professional commentator) has analyzed his mindset. He explains Thiel's attraction to esotericism: >Girard’s ideas are another flyby between tech and the academy. The Girardians may lament the marginal status of his theories within the academy; even Thiel may lament it. But secretly, or not so secretly, that marginality is what draws a man like Thiel to Girard. For in Girard you get your own intuitions repackaged as esoteric knowledge. You get a feeling of oppositionality while remaining at the center of things. You get to feel like a victim while having all the power. And this, as we’ll see, may be the most secret of Silicon Valley’s secret desires. https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://fabricating.it/media/pages/repository/23d8a22dfe-1616916755/adrian-daub-what-tech-calls-thinking.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://fabricat...