i think teal's pessimism is actually what distinguishes him from the prevailing silicon valley mentality of the nineties and the ots. Teal understood that facebook would be powerful precisely because it would create this memetic desires thes cant competition, unbearably competitive impulse on a global scale and within countries. So i think that till he represents something that becoming more common as a ideology in insilicon Valley,. which is being very depressive and about these technologies while still appreciating their power.