"So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls “nature”, and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer."
Ich hielt die kulturpessimistischen Prognosen von Houllebecq und deren Parallelen mit meinem Leben immer für übertriebene Phantasie und Vorstellungskraft (the so called “Romankrankheit”), aber wenn ich diesen Beitrag lese, wird mir schlecht. “The Guardian” ist nicht irgendein Klopapier!





