Wait, the neoreactionaries actually want to be like Isengard and not like, based trad gondor or something like that? I kinda figured it was just called palantir cause they thought it was a cool reference and cause peter thiel is just naturally sinister like that
The metaverse is named after a VR program in Snow Crash, in which it is a tool that an evil corporation wants to use to brainwash and enslave all of humanity except for some very rich people.
The Metaverse in Snow Crash was largely built and maintained by hacker culture though, and later leveraged as a platform for distribution more then a direct tool for control. Metaverse would still be agood reference for smaller projects like Resonite then evil corpo plot.
All this takes tech investing beyond Silicon Valley into new realms, some of them menacing to many observers. That will not worry Mr Thiel. Palantir is named after a “seeing stone” most often used by Sauron, ruler of J.R.R. Tolkien’s evil empire of Mordor in “The Lord of the Rings”. Evidently Mr Thiel, ever the contrarian, does not view Mordor as harshly as most Tolkien fans do. As he once told a friend: “I’d rather be seen as evil than incompetent.”
Wait, the neoreactionaries actually want to be like Isengard and not like, based trad gondor or something like that? I kinda figured it was just called palantir cause they thought it was a cool reference and cause peter thiel is just naturally sinister like that
The metaverse is named after a VR program in Snow Crash, in which it is a tool that an evil corporation wants to use to brainwash and enslave all of humanity except for some very rich people.
The Metaverse in Snow Crash was largely built and maintained by hacker culture though, and later leveraged as a platform for distribution more then a direct tool for control. Metaverse would still be agood reference for smaller projects like Resonite then evil corpo plot.
https://archive.is/20240501163147/https://www.economist.com/business/2021/09/25/peter-thiel-scourge-of-silicon-valley#selection-1056.0-1056.2
If you want a taste of this tech brainrot: https://er4hn.info/blog/2022.08.09-orc_selfidentity/
It’s a thing.