Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis @_benjaminparry I suspect he's simply doing the best he knows. There ain't no fixing clever.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Oct 2025

@RDGStout The 'unintelligent' hardly monopolize certainty strapped to starvation of conscience. Consider Thiel & Co.—vaunted brilliance as Lucifer's own venture: light bent to venture-backed paranoia, scapegoating industrialized as statecraft, persecution as product-market fit.

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Copy of tweet here: "You'd think that, if you educate people, they'd stop scapegoating. Yet all I see is that scapegoating becomes more sophisticated among intellectuals. Without a contemplative mind, education just gives you better reasons for your dualistic rationalizations."

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