Peter Thiel Is Poised to Become a National Villain
This is typical journalist stuff. Sound and fury.<p>They don&#x27;t understand Thiel because they simply have not been listening. I don&#x27;t think they can wrap their heads around his ideas. They have no desire to get outside of their usual frame of reference.<p>I wrote this essay (from my HN comments) about Peter Thiel before Trump got into power.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@internaut_48577&#x2F;peter-and-the-wolfe-b8dee6228918" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@internaut_48577&#x2F;peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de...</a><p>And here is the original comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12884413" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12884413</a><p>Here is a teaser:<p>&quot;I think what most passers-by to Thiel’s Trump endorsement have wrong, is that they think this is some kind of fluke like a random personality quirk or even a midlife crisis. Hence the whole affair may be dismissed as the ramblings of a strange mad billionaire.<p>If you watch Thiel’s presentations going back over a decade, you’ll see something different. These are all public but it takes about a hundred hours or more so most people have jumped around, looking for the gist of what is going on, such as all these journalists attempting to psychoanalyze Thiel, with the obvious motives that first: something weird needs to be explained (100 journalists at the recent press conference!) and less honorably second: he has to be vilified as a prominent opposing political entity external to their tribe.<p>This is unfortunate because the truth is far more interesting albeit very difficult to explain in a way that would impart an understanding...&quot;