There is something unsettling about the way certain Western billionaires think and behave, especially those in the world of technology and finance. Over time, their actions and words have begun to reveal a view of humanity that feels cold, distant, and at times, even hostile. They often speak of progress and innovation, yet seem to care very little for the people who are most affected by these changes.
Take Peter Thiel, for example. He named his company Palantir, after a dark and dangerous artifact in The Lord of the Rings. In the story, the Palantir was used to spy and manipulate, and it eventually corrupted those who relied on it. Why anybody would name a surveillance company after such an object is more than just a strange coincidence. It tells us something about how he and others like him view power and control. What is most surprising is that this did not raise more concern at the time. People accepted it, or perhaps they did not think much of it. That silence says a lot or perhaps its ignorance.
In some interviews, when asked whether people have a right to exist, figures like Thiel seem unable or unwilling to answer directly. For most of us, this would be a simple question. The idea that every person deserves to live and be treated with dignity is something we assume to be true. But for those who see the world only through markets, algorithms, and futuristic fantasies, such ideas seem to hold less weight. It is not just a matter of philosophy when it affects the policies they fund, the companies they build, and the technologies they unleash into the world. The worst part of is these companies are funded by public funds.
Compared to them, many billionaires in the rest of the world do not speak in such strange or alarming ways. They may still be powerful and wealthy, but they do not often dream of uploading their minds, leaving Earth behind, or redesigning humanity. That kind of thinking seems more common in Silicon Valley and parts of the Western elite, where ambition sometimes grows so large that it forgets the value of ordinary human life.
There is nothing wrong with progress. But it becomes dangerous when progress is pursued without care for the people who are left behind or harmed along the way. A future worth building must begin with respect for the present. And any vision of the world that does not make room for everyone is not a future at all, it is just another form of power dressed up as destiny.
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