Shanley

It almost turns into a circus.

Like, look at these freaks.

Like, look at these, like, three freaks that then get sort of obsessively focused on.

And Sam Altman is one of those.

Peter Thiel is one of those.

Curtis Yarvin is one of those.

And it kind of ends up being people are looking at this through the lens of individuals, through the lens of sort of these cults of personalities that are being created.

They're relating to this issue through sort of like individual players in the environment.

And that's actually very limiting when we're talking about a system that consists of trillions of dollars, hundreds of venture capital firms, thousands and thousands and thousands of startups, and all of the financial structures that are around them.

So it has this effect of almost minimizing what's happening and also kind of diverting something so serious into something that is kind of like...

well, we can just make fun of them and that's going to do something and that's activism.

The reality is they think that we are lab rats.

They do not care what we think about them.

So having this very, like, we're going to call them stupid, we're going to call them dumb, we're going to make fun of them, we're going to do whatever, that becomes the dominant form of critique.

And that takes us way off course of what's actually happening.

Yes, 100%.

And that's where the conversation needs to go is towards like, what are we actually dealing with?

Like, what are we actually facing and what are the causes of that?

So I always like to start with sort of talking about, you know, what are some of the core dynamics that are happening within venture capital?

One of them is that venture capitalists act as a central coordinator of this giant machinery of startups and technological development and infrastructure.