Thread by @docMJP

Thread. Technology has opened up a portal to an older world even as Big Corporate has revealed itself as necessarily political entities. Talent wants the freedom to be excellent & work with talent. People are increasingly willing to trade off some stability to escape the Borg.

The trailblazing that lies before us matters, but regardless of particular path we forge, future = a kind of *economic*/politico-cultural war. Piratical. But also & mainly new warlords --> feudal lords marshaling wandering talents seeking to exercise their own excellence again.

In the world we are sailing into, post WWII notions of "neutral" economics/finance, or the way people learned to mentally separate economics/finance from ways of life or political interest and direction (in some ways this is still what elite ed is about) are unhelpful blinders.

What's needed now (same as it ever was, but w/greater immediate effect) = ability to a) draw people out of corrupt larger outfits, b) to fit them together so as to free them up to exercise excellence, c) organize/inspire/allow them to aim explicitly at greater/higher purpose.

Forget doomerism. Imagine what's possible if we build new things w/eye on the actual landscape we now inhabit rather than that of decades ago, never mind if we can ignore the ideological fantasies of insane radicals in the present who wish/demand it to be a certain way.

You need people who can see landscape as it is (politics, culture, tech forest/big picture not trees). You need to get together w/them & get under their banner.

The competent are restless/tired of chafing at their bits. This dam wants to burst. I'm going to do more than let it.

But—and here's the point—the kind of piratical entrepreneurship to feudal lord pipeline possible now is of necessity more tied to political/cultural purpose than at any time in living memory. If we avoid dystopic leftish ethno-fascism, it will be in part b/c of this kind of biz.