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Excellent analysis as always. At the same time, Thiel, Musk, Bezos and the rest are all men of their time, which is to say *last men,* whose cultural and intellectual training was in tech and business. They remain bourgeois to the core, perhaps capitalists in favor of creative destruction, but capitalists nonetheless. Put differently, these guys are not in the same league as an Oliverotto or Cesare Borgia, men who would solve the problem of ambitious tech billionaires in relatively short order. I believe the Left can produce leaders of this kind (one of the few advantages we have over a resurgent Right), but right now we have an unarmed prophet as Prince.

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“All the world loves a lord - that is, it loves to look upon or be noticed by the possessor of Power and Conspicuousness, . . . ” M. Twain -

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