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The bastardization of literature in the 21st Century should be studied for years to come.
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This is what 'bestseller lists' have done to reading.
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Holy shit, the fact that Zero to One is on this is CRAZY. I actually unwittingly read that book after finishing high school, when I foolishly believed American tech was blazing a progressive path forward for society.
That book is a techno-fascist manifesto. In it, Thiel flat out says society should be ran by tech CEOs acting as kings. He lays the groundwork for what Silicon Valley has been trying to do recently with Próspera in Honduras, the Trump plan for Gaza, and there's been murmurings of a similar idea being pushed for Greenland.
With his involvement in Palantir (among other things) I think there's a real argument for this being comparable to a Mein Kampf.