Interview · moment 29 of 30
Peter Thiel's Sincerity and Finding the Next Elon Musk
from The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310 · #310
3 min
Guest
Curtis argues billionaires like Peter Thiel and George Soros pursue power out of sincere belief rather than profit motive, and jokes about needing to find an unknown 20-years-younger Elon Musk type to run a reformed government.
- Tim says finding the next Elon Musk is easy—just throw a stone in Palo Alto and hit someone capable of doing the job.
- He recommends not consuming any content written about yourself as a writer or entertainer.
- Tim explains his approach: start blogging in 2007 saying what he believes without caring what others think, and he admits he got too "crackdown happy" on COVID predictions.
- His advice to everyone: say what you believe, but first stop being a sports fan—it's the pornography of power.
- Just as giving up porn leads to real sex, turning off politics and culture wars leads to real power that matters for the whole country.
- Tim's closing pitch: stop consuming the culture war and start thinking about how government should actually work.