E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
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The Confusion of Christianity, Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism
An ideology can mean both X and its opposite. Christianity justified tearing down the Roman Empire and building up the much later Holy Roman Empire, which oftentimes you have a thesis and antithesis that form of synthesis. I'm not, I don't believe that everything is political. There's the spectrum between technical truths and political truths. It is a deep insight that history is often written by the victors, but it's also true that if that was the only thing that was there, then we wouldn't have a history of star charts or functional agriculture. That's like the struggle in humanity to maintain our civilization.
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