Brian Barrett

But this week, Palantir on X, unprompted, nobody asked them to, but they shared a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book.

They prefaced it with, because we get asked a lot, here's the technological republic in brief.

And it goes on to list Karp's ideal vision of tech and the state working as one.

There are some points in there, some highlights.

Quote, the engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

And also, quote, no other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one.

There's one more in there that I do want to call out.

The draft is a good one.

I was going to go with some cultures have produced vital advances.

Others remain dysfunctional and regressive.

Yeah.

And Elkhart says a lot of stuff all the time.

And this is feels like an extension of that.

So it's maybe I think it hit a nerve because it was the first time people had seen so much of it collected in one place that it was like not something off the cuff on CNBC or at a conference.

It was like, no, this is a very intentional statement of values.

So here's one thing I know we could quote from this all day.

There's a line in there.

The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted.

The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

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