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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.
"The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of occult. The biggest difference is that occults tend to be fanatically wrong about..."
"...this later on okay the occult the occult is basically hidden secret knowledge not available to people that comes from three places other what..."
"It's like the original secret knowledge that somebody got early is how to create, like, a sales funnel. There's just… You follow this pattern,..."
"...apocryphal just means hidden okay or secret or esoteric just a secret knowledge that is kept within these secret societies all right so the..."
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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