The founders are legend. They are powerful, smart, wealthy people. They are also so convinced of their brilliance that they assume their brand of intelligence is suited to any task. Ask yourself, how many great philosophers have mused on the pitfalls of democracy? Now ask yourself, how many of them could code? Idiots, the lot. No, it wasn’t until the 90s that humanity finally realized how to solve timeless problems. The founders will save us. At least, they think so. Their success has reinforced their delusions, and they openly and unabashedly pontificate on their own importance. They write manifestos, give lectures, and host insufferable podcasts where their expertise is offered as the solution to our collective problems. They genuinely believe they should oversee every aspect of American life, from space travel and medicine to transportation, news, television, and education.

 

Oh, the ego.

 

They're smart, but they’re not that smart.

 

Consider for a moment the centuries of innovation and creativity that went into the development of the computer and the internet, all of which ultimately led to…Facebook. It wasn’t even the first of its kind. Mark Zuckerberg does not possess a preternatural wisdom. On the grand scale of human achievement, social media ranks about the same as the first time someone was accidentally set on fire. Except now, everyone willingly passes around the gas can, waiting for a light. And what about Amazon? Yes, it takes intelligence and drive to become so ubiquitous, but I never thought of Sam Walton as particularly enlightened, and I have no interest in a society with Walmart at its center. The same goes for Bezos. 

 

For years, Silicon Valley was widely regarded as a bastion of liberal thought. This may be the case for the rank and file, but it doesn't apply to those at the top. The tech elite have no real political alignment. It is all posturing. They have no belief beyond their own primacy, no goal except the accumulation and defense of power. They might claim otherwise, but they are lying. They are holding forth spoons.

 

While it is a fact that all Silicon Valley titans are ambitious, some scheme bigger than the rest.

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