Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel’s Doomsday Survival Plan (2017)

> “I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now,” Antonio García Martínez

I know this is not the focus of the article, but this statement reads like someone noticing something is going on outside their own comfy privileged bubble, and then concluding they know more about about it than the people who are in the middle of said events.

Sure, being able to step back and look at something from some distance is necessary to reflect and figure out what is going on, but I don't get the impression that that is what is happening here.

Thiel can only protect himself against some threats. In the long run, we're all dead and he can't fight lack of water or systematic financial collapse extending beyond two or three years, or viral threats beyond his enclave leaking in. Sheep diseases mutate and his NZ hideaway is suddenly buried in fomites...

So his plan is ostentatious consumption for a specific subset of problems. What he fails to strategize is how an Iwi or even just a bunch of NZ hoons can unwind his plan. I like to imagine a Morris minor version of mad Max politely knocking on his door asking for some assistance raising hell