Comment by andsoitis
1 day ago
"The United States is not, and should not be permitted to become, a soft compromise and amalgam of global values and tastes.
A reticence or perhaps incapacity to pronounce and to prefer, beyond the shallow and ritualistic shaming of others in the public sphere that masquerades as thought, has had costs.
A fuller statement of the causes and consequences of this reticence is set forth in The Technological Republic. In short, however, a tolerance of everything, a shallow embrace of all views and perspectives as equally valid, often and unfortunately devolves into a belief in nothing."
All that fluff as a verbal sleigh of hand to twist and reframe CS Lewis' treatise against moral relativism (which proposes as an answer an objective morality derived from the commonalities of global cultures' ethical systems that he calls the "Tao").
Remove the rest of the letter ("In The Abolition of Man...") from this hollow framing, and it would read like a screed against Palantir. Does he have a datacenter hooked up to CS Lewis' grave?
>hand to twist and reframe CS Lewis
and also Tolkien obviously with the name of the company. I never understood the whole Peter Thiel LOTR-industrial-complex thing that makes a mockery out of the Christian universalism of Lewis and Tolkien. Thiel, Karp and the whole cohort all sound like Oswald Spengler, not like Lewis.
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This reads like a Bryce P. Tetraeder quote
Like him or hate him, he has an ethos. /s