Peter Thiel's style: Packaging common sense into elitist rhetoric
Linahuaa · x · 2026-08-26
The author argues that Peter Thiel's viewpoints are actually just common sense, but he always expresses them in the most creepy, elitist, pompous, and pretentious way possible.
Examples provided include:
- Normal person: Maybe it's better to make something unique than fight 50 identical competitors.
- Thiel: Competition is the ideology of cattle. The superior founder creates a monopoly and exits the mimetic blood-pit.
- Normal person: It would be nice if medicine helped us live longer.
- Thiel: Death is an engineering defect. Nature has issued a challenge. I intend to appeal the human expiration date.
The author claims to agree with Thiel on everything, noting that many Chinese people would too without knowing him—it's just common sense wrapped differently.
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