tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705935382346558648.post3639291126320903771..comments2023-10-31T22:40:09.763+11:00Comments on Acheron LV-426: Will Thiel wait for us in the future as Dr Eldon Tyrell?Anselmo Quemothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09409052325497882321noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705935382346558648.post-69514182291108007572012-09-03T11:21:24.718+10:002012-09-03T11:21:24.718+10:00Thanks for your comments Veronika.
You won't ...Thanks for your comments Veronika.<br /><br />You won't find any argument from me suggesting Thiel is an inventor: that's why I said he's really no Tyrell, but rather a player "in other people's sandboxes". He's not a visionary and therefore has no ideas to patent. He has to content himself instead with throwing money at other people's ideas, as indeed he has done again with the 3-D meat that is the subject of this post.<br /><br />In any case, I like your characterisation of him, so I think we're basically on the same page. I also have a sneaking suspicion that he craves immortality because he knows he doesn't really have "a legacy". He's closer to Maxwell's demon controlling capital flows, or a kind of "ghost of the counterfeit"-- if you prefer a more Baudrillardian flavor-- where everything is a signifier of other signifiers in a cultural 'code' grounded only in the relations among its own elements. In short, the fact that Thiel can't really create anything of value may be giving him a severe dose of affluenza, which in turn drives him to always search for something less ephemeral to grab hold of. <br /><br />Such an interpretation would also ratify the association with Blade Runner, insofar as the film and the novel on which it is based clearly stage the theme introduced in Gothic literature and accelerated since, of the haunting feeling of living in a counterfeit world, and the effect that can have on people's behaviour.Anselmo Quemothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409052325497882321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705935382346558648.post-44540010833669601112012-09-02T20:42:27.924+10:002012-09-02T20:42:27.924+10:00But Thiel is not an inventor but a venture capital...But Thiel is not an inventor but a venture capitalist. His job is not to invent new things but just shift the money around to bankroll ideas of other people. He is easily confused for an entrepreneur; ye, he shouldnt be. he is a player, a person with imagination. if he just wanted to multiply his resources he would simply invest in energy resources like a 'standard' venture capitalist. yet, instead he plays with science, shoves his money around which creates the illusion that he wants to be involved with agendas/ideas of entrepreneurs. a guy with fantasy or too much spare time on his hands. I think he likes the thrill of new investment which makes him an enterpreneur by proxy but as you said he is not. and he shouldnt be judged as one even tho is is a CEO of PayPal. If not for his PayPal millions he wouldnt have invented anything. PayPal itself can hardly be called an invention coz it just shifts money of other people around. <br /><br />yet, I agree that Thiel is a man of contradictions. Like a walking portfolio theory. And he falls into this fallacious trap of "education is not for everyone for we are not equal" yet still saying that "the more you work the more money you will make".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456956707213446337noreply@blogger.com