Peter Thiel: uncertainty

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…And moral, even. You’re laying down some duty by talking about muddling through. Well, it does tie into all these bigger questions. I don’t think that if we had a one-world state, this would automatically be for the best. I’m not sure that if we do a classical liberal or libertarian intuition on this, it would be maybe the absolute power that a one-world state would corrupt absolutely. I don’t think the libertarians were critical enough of it the last 20 or 30 years, so there was some way they didn’t believe their own theories. They didn’t connect things enough. I don’t know if I’d say that’s a moral failure, but there was some failure of the imagination. This multi-pronged skepticism about muddling through — would you say that’s your actual real political theology if we got into the bottom of this now?…

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