MAGA sees novels like Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale as an instruction booklet, not fiction.

The GOP sees George Orwell's books as procedure manuals.

Oh right empire bringing order God anyone with some survey understanding of history could speak for hours on just how shitty that topic is.

The idea the guys from Silicon Valley have is Europe after the fall of Rome. Their own fiefdoms where they rule as God kings.

He does seem to have a fetish for counter narratives.

But there’s something about him and his emotional and psychological makeup that Tolkien captured with the original dark lord, Melkor.

Tolkien’s characterization of evil is so apt and describes all of the bastards from Silicon Valley. They corrupt and warp everything they touch.

I had this weird thoughts some time ago that people who have deeply dark triad traits don’t interpret novels, the same way as most of us.

Books rely on an intrinsic capacity for empathy and sympathy. I don’t know if people who are severely impaired read the same thing the rest of us would.

@Daojoan

Peter Thiel was the guy who had René Girard (and several of his colleagues) tearing his (their) hair out until the day he died about how sinister the way Thiel twisted Girard's work has been. It seems likely to me that Yeskov himself feels similarly about Thiel's viewpoint on his work, though I'm unaware of any direct comments he might have made on it.

What "progress"? The only progress that I see is that one of the parts is whack-a-moling its way out of sheer panic and the other one needs a break to replenish the drones.

I shouldn't be placing high hopes (or fears) on the situation room thing, it is another crap manoeuvre to keep the idiotic markets sweet.

#Trump has been #Greenlanded by #Iran but knowing his intelect it will probably take another three months for the penny to drop. It is going to be a Cuban summer.

its late and I'm very tired though, so the chances of me finding it art slim

but I swear a month ago I was like - oh shit, two!

So yeah, he was scaling things, but not in a progress kind of way — just the opposite...

(But rooting for the good guys of course.)