Peter Thiel is Taking All the Heat for His VC Cronies

We fucking get it. Peter Thiel is evil. 

Yeah, he’s a total fucking piece of shit, whatever. But somehow over the course of the last 10 years he has become THE figure of evil in tech. Even in the mainstream he provides the timeless, sci-fi esque, the figure odious, malevolent, plucking strings behind closed curtains, funneling crypto into extremest groups, masterminding media ops, carefully constracting massive surveillance platforms… he has done all of these. Look, yes, he’s a bad guy. 

But he is not the primary/singular genesis of evil in the industry and an individual person isn’t sufficient to figure out what is wrong with tech or why. Or more specifically, there is no way to take the venture capital threat out by just addressing Peter Thiel. Far from.

Specifically, Peter Thiel is in a known conflagration of long-term conspirators that includes Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen and increasingly, Palmer Luckey, a “new generation” member who has been continually funded, promoted, shaped by the boss himself: Marc Andreessen. You MUST talk about a16z if you are talking about Peter Thiel or Founder’s Fund. 

The hatred of Peter Thiel has not been particularly useful. Did it ever bother anyone that everything bad in the industry gets put on his singular shoulders? And even rarely, his personal, relatively small VC firm?

These are large economic conspiracies, and the cost of over simplification is serious. For one, you can’t see but a FRACTION of the evil chess board if you are just looking the Peter Thiel game piece.

I’m also concerned that there has been a type of acceptance and normalization, that there is just this acceptance of this abject psycho, a freeranging unhinged fascist billionaire, the chaos monkey of startuplandia, just running around inflicting damage. Oh, that’s just Peter.

But we are dealing with not just one psycho but a group of them and all analysis, all news and critique, all planning and action, must be aware of these other players and factors. This is a group of psychopaths working together and we need to be looking at the wholeeee fuckin sick lineup.

There is a commitment to accuracy and specificity that has been missing in tech criticism and we can actually end up in a pretty dangerous situation when people just don’t understand what we are looking at here and where all this is coming from. The major point missed is that this is large-scale, COORDINATED action happening in the market; Thiel is not a contained issue and it is necessary to indeed see this as a systems issue.

The public persona in many ways prevents material acting on the financial conspiracies that Peter Thiel is involved in, because you can’t even see the direction of the conspiracies without including other people and you’re just looking at him. For example, if you’re just looking at Peter Thiel and the latest awful manipulation of the Republican party, you aren’t seeing the larger goals involved in that, you aren’t seeing how that relates back to other issues in the industry. You can’t understand the military build out in Silicon Valley unless you look at both a16z and Founder’s Fund and their combined spread of autonomous weapons companies, many invested in together. You can’t understand the actual political motivations of the VC class until you looked at combined interests and motives, such as getting weapons contracts and loosening the financial ties between the tech financial system and the “traditional” financial system. You can’t understand the “American Dynamism” venture capital category, which is hiding major coordinated political agendas.

If you’re just worried about Peter Thiel, you don’t understand that his values, goals, political agendas, are not a lone weirdo incel situation or some object lesson in “radicalization”, but rather, are the values, goals, political agendas of very specific VC firms and are actually part of their long nascent/underground, but now rapidly emerging from the ground, movement of fascist philosophy, its flames stoked as venture capitalist after venture capitalist pushes the Overton window as far as possible to let the hate groups that the industry has long nurtured (4chan/8chan, Hacker News, Kiwi Farms) come out into the open. 

Despite this literal global awareness that Peter Thiel is a fascist fuck, there has never been any meaningful attempt to remove Thiel from power outside of “awareness” and the occasional petition they fling at Palantir, as if Palantir wouldn’t literally fucking kill you before they’d do something your dumb little petition said. His recognition as some type of evil emperor has unfortunately directed a lot of negative attention his way to the exclusion of other, and even worse and most powerful people in the industry. 

Energy is being expended and exhausted over Thiel, energy which has never resulted in even a single dent to his power or money. Every single time there is a massive outcry about Peter Thiel, that energy is disappearing into an inactionable hole. When you talk about SVB bank? He took all the heat with a16z sitting right there, the one who actually had major skin in the game. There’s an entire portfolio of warfare being built out by venture capitalists right now, but Palantir gets most of the focus. Much of the effort expended on the role of technology in ICE surveillance was targeted at Palantir. This massive amount of energy that was generated went into another fucking rabbit hole to nowhere. 

Correct targeting is everything. You can blast at the wrong target all you fucking want and you aren’t going to get anywhere. Peter Thiel is part of the target but we need to really start taking a systems level view of these things so energy goes into the right places; I.e., towards public demand that they be prosecuted for their clear human rights abuses and glaring financial conspiracies as opposed to general booing and throwing of bananas. Can we grow up, and start moving away from general awareness to systems intelligence, systems defense and attacks?  

Thiel is at this point functioning as a lightning rod for any heat coming at Silicon Valley. Whatever the major issue is, it gets parked at his feet. I have watched ten years of impotent frothing and raging about Peter Thiel and I am fucking tired. Do you think venture capitalists don’t know that they can cause a massive uproar and then funnel it back into the Dark Lord Peter Thiel, who just happens to fit the delightful, familiar Sith Lord archetype? I promise you we can reduce focus on him specifically and actually gain a lot more perspective by taking a conspiracy-wide view. 

All of this intrigue and interest and supposed critical analysis of Peter Thiel has not even popped up any meaningful character study; this is because this is all reduced to characture where there is no need for personification or personalization; it is because it is all reduced to stereotype and worse, to entertainment. The image of Peter Thiel is one we have created.

In reality, Peter Thiel is a very shy person, a very paranoid individual, and his friends actually do a lot of the talking for him. 

The venture capitalists are very sophisticated players. They have been more than happy to let Peter Thiel and Palantir tank for the entire conspiracy, which is now hiding behind Peter Thiel’s cloak.

There is a whole world of psychopaths in the venture capital world! Perhaps I can interest you in some of them.

A16z has a new Hilary-styled war hawk leading the charge into battle, she gibbers nonstop about the birth rate and the importance of national security, Katharine Boyle. That’s pretty exciting because with Sandberg and Wojcicki hanging up the ol battering rams, we have don’t have any other female sociopaths on the playing field and it’s nice to see that kind of diversity in venture capital.

Another great candidate is Balaji Srinivasan, he is an a16z thug who is wayyyyy fucking out there and through which Thiel and Andreessen launder their political ideologies; Srinivasan is just one step away from the focal point yet now is serving as the lightning rod for Marc Andreessen’s desire to forcibly eject from America, ripping the economy in the process.

Palmer Luckey is definitely one to watch, he is the stone cold killer of them all, a young boy genius given a16z money to build his dream of virtual reality device that could kill people if they die in the game. That was Oculus, and now Palmer is busy bringing virtual reality to the battle field. He has impeccable social skills compared to most of these people and a delightful, laid back mannerism that seamlessly disguises the actual serial killer that hides underneath. Those are my favorites, the ones that seem like humans on the surface but are definitely, definitely not humans. Palmer also has a more playful sense of style. Adam Neumann dresses beautifully, Marc dresses very tastefully, and Palmer dresses like if Marc Benioff was an alcoholic. He’s delightful and some great color on the scene for those of us who have been dealing with the same grayed 50-somethings for the past 10 years.

While thinking of Peter Thiel as a Sith Lord is entertaining, let me tell you, the range of human psychology around these sick fucks is swimming in the fuckin deep end.

See, VCs know that we don’t know what is going on, and the press is dumb and dizzy and muzzled and owned by tech anyway, so they are able to use Founder’s Fund and Peter Thiel as whipping boys.

One of the reasons Thiel has such a bad rap is no more than he doesn’t come off well on stage, because he gets terrible stage fright. Its kindof funny that much of the hate of him is tied up in this fact. You can sense the anxiety dripping off of him. We become unable to look past the Emperor Palpatine-ish pale trembling visage, and conceive of a larger, constellation if you will, a stable, of raging, sadistic, monsteresque psychos. 

Marc is mine but you can take any of these others on offer. This anti-materialist strategy of focusing on just one of them is doing a great disservice to us. For example, in the recent SVB crisis, much attention was paid to the fact that Founder’s Fund started the (in my analysis, purposeful) bank run… but if you’re only looking at Thiel, you’re not looking at deep, deep, personal, professional and financial connections over at a16z, which was just as involved in the bank run if not the more decisive factor due to the size of its portfolio. But Thiel and Founder’s Fund took the lion’s share of the public heat. Palantir CONTINUES to cover for the larger acceleration of data, AI, drone warfare that is happening via a specific configuration of venture capitalists: Founder’s Fund, Lux Capital and a16z. Exact same marketing messaging, down to words and phrases. So there’s actually quite a bit of substance happening here and a lot of open evidence of collusion, but we’re just not getting into it because “Thiel Bad”. SVB was a missed opportunity to pin the conspiracy directly to an ongoing financial crime, but it was turned into “Peter Thiel the Shadow Man” yet again. 

This isn’t as simple as one bad man, it never will be. Venture capitalists strategically divvy up and divide and move around different corporate structures, startups, firms, they do direct personal investing, they slip people in and out of companies, they set up acquisitions, shut down and start up new things. Their division in the appearance of the industry is purposeful; you need to be willing to take a more zoomed-out perspective and see companies and firms as just vessels for much larger conspiracies. They spill into different think tanks and research centers, different schools and labs. The technical/seeming economic bounds of any particular one of their companies, do NOT map onto the actual bounds of the conspiracy. These are people who exert their wills and aims and goals through a really large portfolio of formations. This is not just a Peter Thiel/Palantir thing, with some side mention of the PayPal Mafia that doesn’t actually take a material view of it as an operating dynamic as opposed to being conceptualized as some loose old boy’s network that is increasingly obsolete.  

The development of tech finance since PayPal, has passed through a number of companies and formations from BOTH Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, as the conspiracists started and invested in various fintech companies across the course of the last two bubbles. And while a16z and Founder’s Fund are different companies, they are investing in the same shit over and over and over and over again. The map of what a16z and Founder’s Fund and its associates have invested in TOGETHER gives you a much better picture than just screaming into a void about how much Peter Thiel sucks.  

The fact that Peter Thiel is best friends with Marc Andreessen is never even mentioned. They have a true bond that each has attested to, in public, on multiple occasions. WAKE UP.

This highlights the problems with awareness-focused priorities as opposed to investigation-based priorities. The awareness angle says “spread awareness of this evil man!!!!!” The investigative angle says “let’s look into this evil man and figure out what is going on around him, what he is up to, who he is working with, what is the larger systems view of this issue, and how do we disrupt that.” Only through systems analysis and systems attacks can we take on systems.

Who has Peter Thiel been sitting next to this whole time? Marc Andreessen. 

Investigation cares about the material facts of how this is working; awareness doesn’t give a shit as long as it can generate eyeballs and outrage.

We are deploying in an active situation with some very serious conspiracies playing out. You’ll note, as VCs are well aware, that a single man is not a conspiracy. 

There is no single man here.