rant · moment 10 of 24
The Hall Monitor in a Rolls Royce Analogy
from #237 - Buy The Dip | The Tim Dillon Show · #237
5 min
An extended analogy comparing tech billionaires to a wealthy hall monitor showing up at a crumbling, underfunded school and punishing kids for joking around instead of fixing the actual poverty around them.
- Tim compares tech censors to hall monitors in a crumbling school telling everyone they can't have fun.
- The parental monitor logic: if kids could make their own decisions, they'd have a Rolls Royce instead of being broke.
- Destroying someone's actual life to protect against a phantom metaphorical situation that hasn't happened.
- There is a movement in tech that doesn't want to control people and there are good guys in the CIA who don't want to overthrow elected governments.
- You can't commit actual crimes online like organizing a mob to kill someone, but there's a huge gray area beyond that.
- Tim on choosing your demons: you gotta pick which ones you like better because demons run everything in this world.
- Bill Gates versus Sheldon Adelson: at least Adelson owned a casino and let you go have fun before killing you.
- Peter Thiel, a gay unwoke Silicon Valley guy, might align better with freedom interests than the blue-haired tech crowd.
Bill GatesWhitney WebbPeter ThielSheldon AdelsonCIAventure capital