Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious – Nov 13, 2024 A look into how the tech leaders may be using the new administration to achieve their own agenda. Looking specifically at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andressen, Ben Horotwitz, Brian Armstrong, and David Sacks as well as their relationship with figures like JD Vance, Balaji Srinivasan, and Curtis Yarvin. There is a focused discussion on how a shaping of the government might take place based on convergences between the ideas of Yarvin, who influences the tech libertarian right, and Project 2025, who have authored a playbook exclusively for President Trump to help with his transition to power.
My grandma grew up in a company town. It was a village called Peek-A-Boo in northeastern Pennsylvania and it’s where anthracite coal miners lived as tenants. By the time I was a child in the 1970s, this village was nothing but some foundations in the woods, and my father took me to see the foundation of the house where his mother-in-law had grown up. It was small and she had several siblings. Her brother went into the coal mines not just her father, because that’s what families had to do, because there were stories about coal miners dying on the job and the family immediately being evicted.
I know about company towns, and I don’t even like HOAs. There’s no way I want to live as some dystopian feudal subject of Marc Andreesen or Elon Musk or Sam Altman. It’s bad enough we’re all tech serfs in their social media & AI hype fiefdoms of cloud feudalism.
They call it an “opt-in” society. But I’m not seeing a way to opt-out if they get their desire to do away with democracy.