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169 sats \ 3 replies \ @billytheked 24 Oct \ on: The Velvet Stage and the Burning City ideasfromtheedge
Bah - a svengali?! The Guardian flatters him. Thiel is just aother false prophet accultist.
How old is he anyway? No one his age should wag so much about the culture. Comes off as kitsch.
The lectures traces the same pulse beneath civilization’s skin, those underground wires connecting our fear and our desire, our longing to tear the house apart and still have fun while it burns.
You got it, Car. The biggest civilizational threat imo is the erosion of trust, the fomenting of fear in society.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car OP 24 Oct
I’m glad you got it!
That entire “PayPal Mafia” is drunk on government subsidies. Gen X is finally satisfied Dad trusts them with the keys to self-destruction.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @billytheked 21h
He's only gen X? Wow -- he looks terrible.
People his age ought to think more about their increasing irrelevance and leave the cultural commentary to the kids.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car OP 19h
In some ways yes but most importantly people in power can only ever move things so far in one direction.
Proverbs 21:1 🙏
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