Wow. That list is the most disingenuous list of vague, loosely coherent tripe I may have ever read. WTF? These aren’t even arguments or hypotheses or apologetics. It’s like the bully running home to Mom and whining that their victim stopped submitting to the abuse.
I think the virulent plague of narcissistic psychopathy spreading among the tech and financial elite might be an inevitable result of a system (the collective human psyche) being overwhelmed by conditions (unimaginable personal wealth and power) we simply aren't mentally, emotionally and spiritually evolved enough to bear without serious injury and catastrophic consequences. Our society is in the hands of mad men.
He is apparently in the throes of rejecting his parents' secular liberalism, so there's no way he would be able to ingest this critique, which is too bad. He certainly won't encounter many ethical thinkers in the land of those empowered by the market to get revenge on their high school peers for not being attracted to their blossoming unattractiveness.
What's the most sad, to me, is that these empty, boringly vile lists resonate with so many people, precisely because they *can't* analyze the arguments that it's making, precisely because these people didn't study philosophy. The self-analysis tools that a background in philosophy provides are increasingly only available to those with liberal arts degrees. They need to be provided in high school, but our corporate education system is too interested in giving our teens the tools they need to be good employees - tools like showing up on time and following instructions - and those very critical thinking tools would undermine that interest.
All of what these rich motherfuckers say is just whitewashing to make white collar crime even more invisible. It's all some version of "what you should think about what I am doing." Fuck all of them and their tech fascist grievances and false front of "big ideas." These ideas are witheringly small and stupid, all of them.
This all amounts to "Let Tech Bros Cook!" when "cooking" is meant to invalidate your existence and purpose and replace democracy with a tech-based oligarchy. It's "Be kind to us while we build the Matrix", and man, can they not take the feedback at all. This guy should be ashamed of calling himself a real man.
We need to fight against companies like Palantir for maybe no reason bigger than this is just embarrassing.
“… as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves.”
No, pretty sure the prevailing attitude is that billionaires should be run off the road and their cars stripped for parts to be distributed among the poor.
"… the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within." -- Alex Karp looks within and sees the void so glaringly obvious to everyone else. Thanks for the cogent summary, Hamilton.
Hamilton demonstrates the type of attending skills that philosopher brain science specialist Iain McGilchrist only manages to hint at in his two volumes of thousands of pages. Hamilton has a better way that does not leave us baffled by bullshit but with our shit detectors out and at the ready- able to detect Alex Karp peddling fascistic highly destructive shit. I would sooner ask Hamilton the question of the ages: "what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?" than the likes of philosophers who escape reality in academic flooding of the zones that hint at might help you discover shit.
Wow. That list is the most disingenuous list of vague, loosely coherent tripe I may have ever read. WTF? These aren’t even arguments or hypotheses or apologetics. It’s like the bully running home to Mom and whining that their victim stopped submitting to the abuse.
He makes Gladwell seem insightful.
I think the virulent plague of narcissistic psychopathy spreading among the tech and financial elite might be an inevitable result of a system (the collective human psyche) being overwhelmed by conditions (unimaginable personal wealth and power) we simply aren't mentally, emotionally and spiritually evolved enough to bear without serious injury and catastrophic consequences. Our society is in the hands of mad men.
The collective human psyche being overwhelmed by unimaginable personal wealth and power. Man. Well done. Excellent, succinct conclusion.
He is apparently in the throes of rejecting his parents' secular liberalism, so there's no way he would be able to ingest this critique, which is too bad. He certainly won't encounter many ethical thinkers in the land of those empowered by the market to get revenge on their high school peers for not being attracted to their blossoming unattractiveness.
What's the most sad, to me, is that these empty, boringly vile lists resonate with so many people, precisely because they *can't* analyze the arguments that it's making, precisely because these people didn't study philosophy. The self-analysis tools that a background in philosophy provides are increasingly only available to those with liberal arts degrees. They need to be provided in high school, but our corporate education system is too interested in giving our teens the tools they need to be good employees - tools like showing up on time and following instructions - and those very critical thinking tools would undermine that interest.
All of what these rich motherfuckers say is just whitewashing to make white collar crime even more invisible. It's all some version of "what you should think about what I am doing." Fuck all of them and their tech fascist grievances and false front of "big ideas." These ideas are witheringly small and stupid, all of them.
Development and honing of a superb bullshit detector is a prerequisite for survival.
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This mirrors https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-real-honest-conversation
This all amounts to "Let Tech Bros Cook!" when "cooking" is meant to invalidate your existence and purpose and replace democracy with a tech-based oligarchy. It's "Be kind to us while we build the Matrix", and man, can they not take the feedback at all. This guy should be ashamed of calling himself a real man.
We need to fight against companies like Palantir for maybe no reason bigger than this is just embarrassing.
“… as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves.”
No, pretty sure the prevailing attitude is that billionaires should be run off the road and their cars stripped for parts to be distributed among the poor.
"… the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within." -- Alex Karp looks within and sees the void so glaringly obvious to everyone else. Thanks for the cogent summary, Hamilton.
Love this article! You have a great way of seeing through the flack that's thrown out to the peasants. Keep up the great work!
Sad... many such cases...
I hope I live long enough to see Karp’s Praetorian Guard realize they could take it all from him.
"Your job is to keep doing cartoonishly evil shit until a hero finally vanquishes you." 😂
Hamilton demonstrates the type of attending skills that philosopher brain science specialist Iain McGilchrist only manages to hint at in his two volumes of thousands of pages. Hamilton has a better way that does not leave us baffled by bullshit but with our shit detectors out and at the ready- able to detect Alex Karp peddling fascistic highly destructive shit. I would sooner ask Hamilton the question of the ages: "what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?" than the likes of philosophers who escape reality in academic flooding of the zones that hint at might help you discover shit.