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<p>This past March, <a href="https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1517234898012102656">Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters was asked</a> to name an ideological influence. Rather than answering <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-ayn-rands-wild-top-secret-atomic-bomb-movie-lost-its-way">Ayn Rand</a> or French philosopher Rene Girard (a favorite of Masters’ benefactor, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-thiel-invests-big-in-firms-his-favorite-candidates-blake-masters-and-jd-vance-love-to-hate">tech billionaire Peter Thiel</a>), Masters cited <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-unabomber-is-back-to-terrorize-america">Ted Kaczynski</a>. </p>
<p>Yes, that would be the same guy who murdered strangers through the mail as the so-called “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-unabomber-made-the-fbi-beg-for-help">Unabomber</a>.”</p>
<p>His answer caught many off guard. Why would a technology venture capitalist who co-authored a book about building the future cite a luddite terrorist? It was, however, a fittingly heterodox paradox for a member of the Thielverse.</p>
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Yes, that would be the same guy who murdered strangers through the mail as the so-called “Unabomber.”
His answer caught many off guard. Why would a technology venture capitalist who co-authored a book about building the future cite a luddite terrorist? It was, however, a fittingly heterodox paradox for a member of the Thielverse.
