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I do wonder if theyβre not so much in favour of autocracy per se, but more that they know thereβs no way of installing their preferred libertarian system through any sort of democratic process.
I guess thatβs why itβs a nebulous strongman they allude to, but donβt go on to describe in detail the specific bureaucracy or system necessary for their model society. In any case, that would go against their libertarianism, so theyβre just stuck being elite reactionaries in a political and theoretical dead end.
These guys have a very strange set of political beliefs. You need to have a peculiar and narrow definition of freedom to reach this conclusion:
Presumably Thiel thinks he, or another of his ilk, would be the enlightened supreme leaderβ¦