Venture Capitalist Weighs in, once again, on America’s Young
Here’s an article in which billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel expresses his concern about the coming generation, i.e., that they are prone to become communists.
In all honesty, I haven’t been following Thiel too closely. At one point perhaps 25 years ago, he was offering to pay young people handsomely ($20K?) if they would do anything else in their lives but go to college.
What to make of that? I always thought it meant that, as a prototypical capitalist, he thought that ours would be a better nation if our children were not exposed to liberal thinking, and that they went headlong into the workplace.
Here, however, he seems to be saying the opposite. “If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communists,” he explained. I suppose it’s possible that he doesn’t know what a “proletariat” is, i.e., a member of the working class, as described under Marxism.
What do you expect uneducated young people to become? Doctors? Astronomers? Pulitzer Prize-winning authors? No, sorry, that won’t work. They can’t do algebra, let alone advanced biochemistry or physics. They can barely read. They can, on the other hand, mow lawns, flip burgers, pick crops, bus tables, or attend (the ever-diminishing supply of) cash registers.
You don’t want communists, and you don’t want affluence. What do you want?
Below is Donald Trump’s announcing that, on June 14, 2026, he will be hosting a UFC event, i.e., mixed-martial arts, fought in a cage. There will be 6000 spectators on the White House lawn, and another 9000 on the Ellipse.
What Neil deGrasse Tyson (supposedly) said at left isn’t true. The theory of evolution is about 170 years old. Science demonstrated that Earth is approximately 4.55 billion years old in 1956.
I’ll happily pony up $10,000 if that will put Musk on board to Mars.
Are scientist really testing these wind-powered pumps? No, not unless they lack a high school education in science.
To answer the question here, sure. Here’s why:
It appears that Trump supporters have no problem handing over America’s democracy to a dictator.
Yes, we’re a country that’s packed with tens of millions of cruel idiots, but it seems that some of Trump’s most outrageous ideas (like the one expressed at left) may be starting to backfire and unravel his presidency.
Former Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Donald Trump: “I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed…he is unqualified and unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.”
About this now-famous photograph at left, a woman wrote: “Imagine. More than 77 million gullible fools.”
