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This is a long rant, but just my opinion:
His argument and views on "progress" vs "stuck" or stagnation are the things that make me really just shake my head at the fact that anyone buys into his BS. Like it's just the money that gets people to listen to him right? Wtf are you even talking about? The last 50 years have been "stagnation?"
Especially in terms of science and technology, like have you been paying attention to anything? Or are you just throwing another hissy fit bc they haven't figured out how to upload you fast enough, and you're so scared that one day you're going to have to accept your own mortality just like everyone else?
Look at how we even got to this point. Look at how educational, economic, and social changes after WWII led to an explosion of innovation and ideas. Changes to society following WWII opened up opportunities for people to offer a new perspective in so many areas that had become homogenous and stagnant.
Does he think it was the war itself that just did that? Like he believes if he can play god, the recipe for greatness just calls for him to make a "big bang" and the only possible result that can follow is a boom of progress and of innovation???
If that's what this is, it actually make so much sense. At his core, he is somebody who desperately seeks power and control, but never actually learned to build or create anything of his own. Like he wants the things, and is quite successful at getting them. But he gets them through the only strategy he knows. Throwing money at them, joining something that already exists (like a company or organization), and strategizing a takedown of the internal structure, so that by default it becomes his.
But, he has no idea how to create something from scratch. This would be his attempt to model himself after greatness, but make it his own. He studied the history lesson, but either completely misunderstood it, or, he is arrogant enough to believe repeating it like an experiment, but with his own selfish spin, will lead to the same or better outcome. Almost like he's banking on technology being able to achieve everything human innovation did after WWII.