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Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“There was a 1900 one by Soloviev, War Progress and the End of History. They both had these sort of accounts of this future totalitarian world dictator who took over the whole world.”
Why: Provides one of the best fictional accounts of a future world dictator.
War, Progress, and the End of History : Three Conversations by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Guest on Conversations with TylerPeter Thiel on Political Theology
“The two best fictional ones in my mind were pre-World War I. There was a 1908 Robert Hugh Benson, sort of a Catholic book, Lord of the World.”
Why: They are the two best fictional accounts of the Antichrist.
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Guest on Conversations with TylerPeter Thiel on Political Theology
“Yeah, so I was extremely influenced by the Reese Mock Davidson book, 1997, The Sovereign Individual, where the thesis was, let's say, the computer technology information age was trending in this very deeply decentralizing libertarian way.”
Why: It deeply influenced his views on the decentralizing trajectory of the information age.
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
Guest on Conversations with TylerPeter Thiel on Political Theology