The network state, if anything, is the opposite of the city on a hill: they want nobody's eyes upon them, because anyone looking at them critically will see how badly they've fucked up, and instead they want to wall themselves away and control entirely what anyone else knows about them.
The only joy I got from seeing the clips of the interview online were all of the comments roasting him. I wouldn't be surprised if this type of thought has a lot to do with the lack of consequences and constant attention from lickspittles once a person achieves billionaire status. Almost like having this much money creates mental illness or something.
“While Point Delores had always been home to actors, rock stars, and professional athletes, COVID changed everything. Hours after California’s handsome, blow dried, boy Governor, Sebastian Truestone, announced the strictest lockdown rules in the nation, locust like swarms of Gulf Streams, Bombardiers, and Boeings descended on Van Nuys Airport. Waiting on the tarmac, in temperature controlled SUVs and luxury sedans, anxious real estate brokers gave their breath a final check.
As the Tech Mongols, their satraps and courtiers deplaned, the brokers greeted them with symbolic offerings of coconut water, fair trade coffee and fresh squeezed juices of every variety. Next, they bundled their prey into cars and the convoy sped down the Ventura Freeway. After they exited at Delores Canyon Road, they wound their way up and over the hill to find their piece of private paradise. No price was too high and there was no such thing as “not for sale.”
Minutes after escrow closed, construction workers descended on their new properties like the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu. Frank Llyod Wright, Charles Gwathney Frank Lautner, Matt Kivlin, Richard Meier—new, old, architecturally significant—it didn’t matter. They were all bulldozed and replaced with post-modern, concrete and steel fireproof bunkers that would have pleased Reich Minister Albert Speer himself.”
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/Winthrop%27s%20City%20upon%20a%20Hill.pdf
The network state, if anything, is the opposite of the city on a hill: they want nobody's eyes upon them, because anyone looking at them critically will see how badly they've fucked up, and instead they want to wall themselves away and control entirely what anyone else knows about them.
The only joy I got from seeing the clips of the interview online were all of the comments roasting him. I wouldn't be surprised if this type of thought has a lot to do with the lack of consequences and constant attention from lickspittles once a person achieves billionaire status. Almost like having this much money creates mental illness or something.
Mr Andresson
An odd fellow
Bought a 177 million slice of paradise in Malibu
From my Malibu novel “Point Douche”:
“While Point Delores had always been home to actors, rock stars, and professional athletes, COVID changed everything. Hours after California’s handsome, blow dried, boy Governor, Sebastian Truestone, announced the strictest lockdown rules in the nation, locust like swarms of Gulf Streams, Bombardiers, and Boeings descended on Van Nuys Airport. Waiting on the tarmac, in temperature controlled SUVs and luxury sedans, anxious real estate brokers gave their breath a final check.
As the Tech Mongols, their satraps and courtiers deplaned, the brokers greeted them with symbolic offerings of coconut water, fair trade coffee and fresh squeezed juices of every variety. Next, they bundled their prey into cars and the convoy sped down the Ventura Freeway. After they exited at Delores Canyon Road, they wound their way up and over the hill to find their piece of private paradise. No price was too high and there was no such thing as “not for sale.”
Minutes after escrow closed, construction workers descended on their new properties like the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu. Frank Llyod Wright, Charles Gwathney Frank Lautner, Matt Kivlin, Richard Meier—new, old, architecturally significant—it didn’t matter. They were all bulldozed and replaced with post-modern, concrete and steel fireproof bunkers that would have pleased Reich Minister Albert Speer himself.”
"The thesis on offer was this: great men of history had little to no introspection."
Yeah! Like that Marcus Aurelius guy!