{"id":594736,"date":"2024-01-29T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=594736"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:33:27","slug":"thiel-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/29\/thiel-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiel Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He discussed the fervor of advocates for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wokeness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as religious. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you think of \u00e2\u20ac\u2039\u00e2\u20ac\u2039wokeness as a form of Puritanism run amok or something like that, where the self-proclaimed saints are using it as a stick to beat everyone else,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndsmcobserver.com\/article\/2024\/01\/billionaire-peter-thiel-addresses-dei-culture-wars\">Talk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thiel argued there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a culture of suppression that undermines truth. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I always have this shortcut: where if there are things that are taboo, things you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even allowed to say, my shortcut is it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably just true,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thiel closed his remarks with a discussion of the term political correctness, which he said had already been adopted by conservatives in the 1990s as an epithet, used by liberals to describe themselves in the 1970s and it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just meant you were a communist.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He ended with the line \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is you know, a simplification of sorts, I think it would not be altogether unhealthy that if every time you hear the word DEI, you just think CCP.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He discussed the fervor of advocates for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wokeness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as religious. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you think of \u00e2\u20ac\u2039\u00e2\u20ac\u2039wokeness as a form of Puritanism run amok or something like that, where the self-proclaimed saints are using it as \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594739,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594736\/revisions\/594739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}