“If you’re evil, you’re at least competent. Um, if you’re evil you’re not bad and therefore you’re actual- maybe you’re actually ki-kind of good because you’re at least getting something done.”
The richest man obsessed with the anti-christ, Peter Thiel, has apparently done a new interview though all I can find so far are little snippets. I’m half awake while writing this fresh off of being incompetent and good I guess. I woke up today, smoked a cigarette and let my brain rot before I gave the top level doggy her seizure medication.
I plan to watch the full interview when I’m stoned enough to fully process it without giving myself a stroke.
With that little snippet and the context I know of this guy, I think I have an idea of what the fuck he’s going on about without causing myself psychic damage this early in the day and watching the full interview.
He’s giving a nod to the system most cultures in the “1st world” run on. It’s not a secret and in fact something that’s been recently studied: the bigger prick you are in the work place, the more conniving and apathetic towards your fellow wage slave you are, the faster you tend to advance up the career ladder.
Evil = not caring about the human cost of advancement. Evil (as he goes on to say) is pretty fucking efficient. Evil gets shit done, always at the expense of others and without any after thought to the damage that was done in the name of whatever bullshit they felt they needed to accomplish to make their dad’s voice singing of failure stop reverberating through their head.
Pure science and pure faith are two great examples of this. To have pure science you absolutely need a healthy dose of apathy running through your veins. To know something you create is going to have a large negative impact or that the body count along the way is going to pile up (the atom bomb, Henrietta Lacks, the 600 black men of the Tuskegee Experiment, etc) is evil and pure science.
The same can be said with pure faith. Pure faith is finding out your child has a curable disease and putting the survival of that child in the hands of the Lord instead of the hands of a doctor. Pure faith is jumping off the tallest building you can find thinking that your god will lessen the blow waiting for you at the bottom because of your love for him. Pure faith is being questioned why I “don’t just go around killing people” because I’m an atheist and apparently, the fear of some creeper in the sky is the only thing stopping at least a decent percentage of the population from murdering the other half.
People confuse the word pure with something always attributed to something good. No. Pure is unrefined, unfiltered, unrestrained. American culture once again has twisted your little brain around a word in the wrong way.
I’ll suffer through the full interview and come back, but goddamn. What a completely inhuman thing to hear at what could be considered my version of 8am.
