/lit/ - Literature

>>20967331
Peter Thiel's reading list:

Our Present Decadence:
- Leo Strauss, The City and Man
- Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society

Decline:
- Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, abridged edition

Science:
- Francis Bacon, New Atlantis
- Derek de Solla Prince, Science since Babylon

Technology:
- Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb

Fear:
- Soencer Weart, The Rise of Nuclear Fear
- René Girard, "Hamlet's Dull Revenge" from Theater of Envy

Counterculture:
- Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Stagnation 1: Journalistic Accounts
- Christopher Caldwell, the Age of Entitlement
- Camile Paglia, Provocations

Stagnation 2: Theoretical and Novelistic Accounts
- Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
- Michel Houllebecq, Submission

The Case Against Growth
- Dietrich Vollrath, Fully Grown
- Donella Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth

Ways Out?:
- Ernst Juenger, The Forest Passage
- Henry George, Progress and Poverty

>>18714033
Peter Thiel
>What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
>Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
>The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.
>Technology is the alternative to politics.

If politics and its society determines your worldview, you are its dog.
The unreasonable man forces the universe into his hands...
I believe Aristotle said it is best, which probably best describes Thiel's world view in a sentence better than I can: "He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a God."

>>17434569
>wagie vs billionaire top of the world contrarian god skin-in-the-game everything-to-lose therefore everything-to-gain extraordinaire

yeah, it's obvious who wins here.

you will never make it.

>>17410184
>doesn't understand middle school concept of power laws
>not owning a monopoly so you may finally own your freedom
>you will never make it