Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by sevenless on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @01:52PM (#12131001)

There's a certain conservative mentality that delights in being more-reactionary-than-thou.

When I encounter it I tend to say things like "Oh, the real problem started when we adopted agriculture in 6000BC. It was Big Government that wanted us to drop the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and submit to the state. And don't get me started on the invention of reading and writing..."

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by Apocryphon on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:04PM (#12131128)

That's pretty much what the ideology of primitivism is about. They advocate a return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

John Zerzan (/ˈzɜːrzən/, zur-zən; born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by sevenless on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:06PM (#12131139)

Thank you, that is a fantastic link. I love reading out-there philosophies.

And of course he inspired the Unabomber.

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