Paulina Borsook Saw Tech Fascism Coming
"Cyberselfish" author interviewed on Nerd Reich podcast
"Cyberselfish" author interviewed on Nerd Reich podcast
Last February, I wrote about Katherine Boyle, a venture capitalist pushing extreme anti-government ideas. Boyle, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, had delivered a speech in which she defined government as an enemy of the family. She supported her thesis by pointing out that Jesus Christ had been executed by the
Adam Becker, Brooke Harrington, and I Answer Your Questions tech extremist politics
Fascism
Yesterday, I received my copy of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. The new book by journalist Jacob Silverman tells how Musk and his fellow tech billionaires became right-wing zealots, teaming up with Trump in a project to destroy American democracy. I encourage you to buy
Antichrist
Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures
Curtis Yarvin
‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’
peter thiel
“The strange thing is that, if you look at any of these narratives—science fiction, Lord of the Rings, The Bible—the tech billionaires are obviously the villains in all of those books. Right? But they have such bad comprehension of reading—or maybe it’s a willful misinterpretation—that
peter thiel
An “unsatisfactory” ideology “cobbled together from various religious-philosophical fragments”
2025
Journalist Paulina Borsook warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer
It was preceded in death by conservatism, which fell to a terminal case of fascism in 2016.
One can look at Trump’s increasingly authoritarian moves as the “end of America”—or as flagrant desperation.
Here's what the Palantir billionaire is trying to say