<story><title>Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-luminary-peter-thiel-parts-ways-with-silicon-valley-1518696120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>What topics, exactly, are so taboo? McCarthyism was about a specific ideology. And, mind you, people were getting dragged into court over it, which Ferris is certainly not at risk of. In fact, this is in a thread about a guy who shut a media outlet down. What is Ferris worried that he can&amp;#x27;t talk about?</text></item><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>Tim Ferris on the same issue:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;McCarthyism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;McCarthyism&lt;/a&gt;) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I&amp;#x27;m as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley. These days, people with real jobs (unlike me) are risking their careers to even challenge collective delusions in SF. Isn&amp;#x27;t this supposed to be where people change the world by challenging the consensus reality? By seeing the hidden realities behind the facades? That&amp;#x27;s the whole reason I traveled west and started over in the Bay Area. Now, more and more, I feel like it&amp;#x27;s a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It&amp;#x27;s weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There&amp;#x27;s way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say &amp;quot;Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there&amp;#x27;s a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine...&amp;quot; we&amp;#x27;re headed for big trouble.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;IAmA&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7erct8&amp;#x2F;i_am_tim_ferriss_host_of_the_tim_ferriss_show_and&amp;#x2F;dq6zrh1&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;IAmA&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7erct8&amp;#x2F;i_am_tim_ferri...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve witnessed this first hand, and alongside the congestion and housing problems that no one wants to handle, it was a big reason I decided to leave the Bay Area for good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbooth</author><text>There are a tiny minority of liberals who, rather than embracing breaking down barriers and a hunky-dory co-existence like the rest of us, erect barriers of purity and constantly call people out.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re annoying.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, that&amp;#x27;s the dominant mode for the entire right half of the spectrum so take their complaints with a grain of salt.  And who gives the above-mentioned annoying liberals their biggest platform?  Right wing media.  Gotta feed the wurlitzer.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a &amp;quot;differing and diverse political opinion&amp;quot; to think people of color and women are inherently less worthy, it&amp;#x27;s just racist&amp;#x2F;sexist.</text></comment>
<story><title>Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-luminary-peter-thiel-parts-ways-with-silicon-valley-1518696120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>What topics, exactly, are so taboo? McCarthyism was about a specific ideology. And, mind you, people were getting dragged into court over it, which Ferris is certainly not at risk of. In fact, this is in a thread about a guy who shut a media outlet down. What is Ferris worried that he can&amp;#x27;t talk about?</text></item><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>Tim Ferris on the same issue:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;McCarthyism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;McCarthyism&lt;/a&gt;) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I&amp;#x27;m as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley. These days, people with real jobs (unlike me) are risking their careers to even challenge collective delusions in SF. Isn&amp;#x27;t this supposed to be where people change the world by challenging the consensus reality? By seeing the hidden realities behind the facades? That&amp;#x27;s the whole reason I traveled west and started over in the Bay Area. Now, more and more, I feel like it&amp;#x27;s a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It&amp;#x27;s weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There&amp;#x27;s way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say &amp;quot;Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there&amp;#x27;s a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine...&amp;quot; we&amp;#x27;re headed for big trouble.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;IAmA&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7erct8&amp;#x2F;i_am_tim_ferriss_host_of_the_tim_ferriss_show_and&amp;#x2F;dq6zrh1&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;IAmA&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7erct8&amp;#x2F;i_am_tim_ferri...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve witnessed this first hand, and alongside the congestion and housing problems that no one wants to handle, it was a big reason I decided to leave the Bay Area for good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>I understand the grievance against McCarthyism was mostly about preventing people from getting work if they held the wrong political views. In that respect what Thiel complains about isn&amp;#x27;t too dissimilar.</text></comment>