Reid Hoffman: belief

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…Pretended to be a radical but was a fusty old white guy? How do we process him now? [laughs] No, no, no. There’s a problem with elites, where essentially incompetent people try to lock in their own position, prestige, and power, and that critique of elitism is a critique that I’m sympathetic to. But the maximum expression of human potential, from wherever it comes from within human society, is something I think is super important. And the valuing of being extraordinary in a number of different ways, including intellectual and a bunch of others, is, I think, super important. And I think Matthew Arnold’s values of those sorts were very good. I think the primary thing that I was writing about in that essay was that one can articulate very good conservative values that are not trying to lock in the past against the future, but trying to articulate principles that help guide you in your own evolution of thinking about concepts like liberty and others. To whom do you give greater credit, Socrates or Plato?…

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