Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley
Tim Ferris on the same issue:<p>&gt; Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McCarthyism</a>) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I&#x27;m as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley. These days, people with real jobs (unlike me) are risking their careers to even challenge collective delusions in SF. Isn&#x27;t this supposed to be where people change the world by challenging the consensus reality? By seeing the hidden realities behind the facades? That&#x27;s the whole reason I traveled west and started over in the Bay Area. Now, more and more, I feel like it&#x27;s a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It&#x27;s weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There&#x27;s way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say &quot;Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there&#x27;s a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine...&quot; we&#x27;re headed for big trouble.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IAmA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7erct8&#x2F;i_am_tim_ferriss_host_of_the_tim_ferriss_show_and&#x2F;dq6zrh1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IAmA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7erct8&#x2F;i_am_tim_ferri...</a><p>I&#x27;ve witnessed this first hand, and alongside the congestion and housing problems that no one wants to handle, it was a big reason I decided to leave the Bay Area for good.