November 2011
4 posts
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
The End of the Future
One of the most important essays of this year from Peter Thiel
Progress is neither automatic nor mechanistic; it is rare. Indeed, the unique history of the West proves the exception to the rule that most human beings through the millennia have existed in a naturally brutal, unchanging, and impoverished state. But there is no law that the exceptional rise of the West must continue.
The...
