The second Thiel excerpt treats elite startups as entities that may look like cults or mafias because they are fanatically right about something outsiders have missed.
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Cult
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of occult. The biggest difference is that occults tend to be fanatically wrong about..."
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Jiang answers that nationalism is close to religion, while a cult is smaller, more limited, and requires rituals.
Jiang describes Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility seminars as expensive rituals that tell white suburban women they are racist while excluding Black participants.
Jiang says like what's really interesting is that china is the most atheist country in the world it's more most materialistic but like you look at any chinese...
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"The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of occult. The biggest difference is that occults tend to be fanatically wrong about..."
"Have you come across a woman named Robin DiAngelo?"
"You know who she is? Okay. So Robin DiAngelo wrote a book called White Fragility. And what she promotes is the idea that all..."
"...by appealing to the idea of self -victimization. And she's a cult leader."
"...you look at any chinese organization it's set up as a cult so that's not like as it's like with this cult and like..."
"...about? Any questions? Oh, what's the difference between nationalism and a cult? So there's really little difference between nationalism and a cult. There's a..."
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