Peter Thiel, Leader of the Rebel Alliance

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • Recorded in Florence, Italy, on October 19, 2022
    With his many varied interests in technology, politics, and culture, Peter Thiel has often been described as a Renaissance man. So perhaps it was only fitting that we traveled to Florence, Italy-where the Renaissance originated and thrived for hundreds of years-to speak with him. In this wide-ranging interview, we cover several topics, including his support for candidates across the country who are running as outsiders, why technology has not fulfilled many of its early promises, and why California is still America’s incubator for ideas and growth.
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  • @briantwardy2809
    @briantwardy2809 Год назад +390

    These interviews by Peter Robinson are the #1 reason for me to have a computer and an internet connection. Thoughtful and deep interviews are tremendously interesting , and Mr Robinson's interviews are the best of the best. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

  • @Kane123
    @Kane123 Год назад +463

    How on earth is this content free. Brilliant interview.

  • @starwreck
    @starwreck Год назад +341

    It has been a while. Glad to see Peter again.

  • @TimothyOReilly
    @TimothyOReilly Год назад +266

    I always enjoy Peter’s insights and alternative takes. He really challenges us all to think. Thanks for interviewing him and sharing.

  • @RAM-py6zp
    @RAM-py6zp Год назад +432

    Peter Robinson is a fantastic interviewer

  • @craigb4913
    @craigb4913 Год назад +54

    We didn't get flying cars, but at least we got information & great content like this with one click.

  • @sampotter4455
    @sampotter4455 Год назад +59

    Great interview! Thanks Peter and Peter.

  • @douglasgarrett4521
    @douglasgarrett4521 Год назад +67

    Uncommon Knowledge one of the very few programs worth watching on the internet. Thought provoking and intellectually stimulatiing discussions with an array of fascinating guests and profound interviewing skills.Thank you.

  • @martinjohnson5498
    @martinjohnson5498 Год назад +61

    14:30- the thing about China is that they are… Culturally and historically Chinese. They are not Europeans who are communists, they are China, a very different culture and history.

  • @lannyfaulkner6697
    @lannyfaulkner6697 Год назад +106

    One of the most enlightening and mentally stirring conversations ever. If only a voting public would think these things through. Thank you for this.

  • @matthewjnyman
    @matthewjnyman Год назад +57

    Can we start asking Thiel new questions, please?

  • @cwfilli
    @cwfilli Год назад +85

    An intelligent and captivating discussion. Thank you, Peter and Peter.

  • @joan3891
    @joan3891 Год назад +39

    Peter hasn’t been around for a while and I’m thrilled to be able to listen to his current thought! Thank you both.

  • @romancandlefight1144
    @romancandlefight1144 Год назад +79

    My opinion on why the West stagnated:
    - Lost industry to foreign nations, which had hitherto fed off and nourished scientific and engineering advances, and provided a real reward for studying engineering and working blue collar jobs.
    - Overabundance of artificially cheap goods, care of zero wage foreign offshored industry, turning people into consumers rather than creators.
    - Government growing in size and influence, with regulation growing endlessly blocking technological advancement by default.
    - Socialist government policies, to offset the downtrodden former blue collar demographic, creating a permanent underclass and unaccountable elite, creating vast imbalances and giving the government more excuses to expand and crush entrepreneurship in the process.

  • @pltowers3491
    @pltowers3491 Год назад +126

    Great to hear Carroll Quigley quoted at 22:45 by none other than Peter Theil, on the Hoover Institutes podcast! I can see the quote caught our good old presidential speech writer Peter Robinson by surprise when tied into the discussion of the California partisan divide. Quigleys sober look at American history, is of great concern to the foundational beliefs of modern American history as it is taught in public schools. If you want to further your knowledge in regards to American history, Hoover Institute actually produced a great fellow by the name of Antony Sutton, who wrote incredible works, greatly quoting Quigley throughout, that I suggest reading as soon as possible. He is a more condensed understanding of Quigley's 1000 page books such as Tragedy and Hope, focusing more on our foundational understanding of the architects who designed and profited from the second world war.

  • @RobertMJohnson
    @RobertMJohnson Год назад +22

    these are great, Peter, they are just too short! would love to have them go 90-120 minutes if possible.

  • @cybnblau
    @cybnblau Год назад +37

    Seriously fascinating interview. Thiel has a formidable intellect, with absolutely no pretence.

  • @AnotherFaceInTheCrowd
    @AnotherFaceInTheCrowd Год назад +29

    Thank you SO MUCH for this dialogue. This is therapy that money can not buy and I am SO grateful to you for this equal opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds in our world. You are making waves Peter Robinson, as well as many of the great divergent thinkers you interview.

  • @christopherrobbins9985
    @christopherrobbins9985 Год назад +44

    Another brilliant interview....why I love RUclips.

    • @tulipsontheorgan
      @tulipsontheorgan Год назад +4

      Thank The Hoover Institute and Peter Robinson….YT censors🤮

  • @TheNordicKnight
    @TheNordicKnight Год назад +23

    Peter is unbiased as far as I can tell. Most reporters and interviewers lack this trait.

  • @LaddDentalGroup
    @LaddDentalGroup Год назад +27

    One of the most famous members of ole "PayPal mafia".. Absolutely brilliant guy

  • @MarkPetree
    @MarkPetree Год назад +141

    It’s sort of sad that someone like Peter Thiel would never be elected to office. And he wouldn’t want to be. The guy is just so damn prescient.

  • @JR-gc5ef
    @JR-gc5ef Год назад +33

    I'm sure its misspeak but Nuclear power plants are not "dual use". Bombs have pure fissile material (over 90%) while plants only have around 4%.

  • @daltonalbertin137
    @daltonalbertin137 Год назад +14

    Another banger!! Thanks so much for the content!!

  • @BB-cf9gx
    @BB-cf9gx Год назад +34

    Peter I always enjoy your interviews. Another great one.

  • @Zinacharme
    @Zinacharme Год назад +18

    he gives me hope

  • @esterhudson5104
    @esterhudson5104 Год назад +11

    Hi Peters. Good to see you two again.😘

  • @jakubjodlowski8416
    @jakubjodlowski8416 Год назад +76

    Was really looking forward to Peter Thiel coming on the show again.

  • @josephglaeser9674
    @josephglaeser9674 Год назад +14

    I love Theil his insights are always worth hearing. Thank you Hoover!

  • @laurenglass4514
    @laurenglass4514 Год назад +61

    God Bless Peter Thiel.

  • @PieterHanja
    @PieterHanja Месяц назад

    Two great minds; thank you!

  • @bliglum
    @bliglum Год назад +8

    Thank you so much for this!

  • @44yyBBaakk
    @44yyBBaakk Год назад +33

    new Peter Thiel video - like from the first second. The man literally lives in the future

  • @SidekickSam24
    @SidekickSam24 Год назад +81

    It's an interesting idea I haven't heard before that everyone lived under the fear of nuclear annihilation for so long that now we are afraid to create new technologies. I suppose one counter argument to that, that just occurred to me would be the biolabs that are still creating new diseases. That's a pretty obvious technology that can easily be used as a weapon that we are still progressing.

  • @deirdreberger1363
    @deirdreberger1363 Год назад +2

    Peter Robinson always has very thought-out, in-depth interviews.

  • @jjforcebreaker
    @jjforcebreaker Год назад +19

    Fantastic talk. Thank you!

  • @koroglurustem1722
    @koroglurustem1722 Год назад +25

    "We were promised flying cars and all we got was a 140 characters" 🤣

  • @JG-qt3pn
    @JG-qt3pn Год назад +10

    "Greetings Earthlings", Peter Thiel

  • @Sarcasmses
    @Sarcasmses Год назад +19

    Hoover getting more hip with Star Wars references in its titles.

  • @ivorgrubisic90
    @ivorgrubisic90 Год назад +8

    As a civilization, our weakest point is our spiritual level of development, not lack of technology.

  • @forwardUSA
    @forwardUSA Год назад +14

    Thank you for your great interviews Peter

  • @aliviablount
    @aliviablount Год назад +17

    I appreciate his views on college

  • @mottgirl13
    @mottgirl13 Год назад +40

    What an interesting and intelligent conversation. I feel 1% smarter..

  • @C73-u4t
    @C73-u4t Год назад +3

    Thank you, great interview

  • @darkmythos4457
    @darkmythos4457 Год назад +21

    Sorry, but maybe ask him something new, this is a replica of his old interview(s)

  • @charliezha9066
    @charliezha9066 Год назад +10

    I could not have agreed with Peter more.

  • @J-SH06
    @J-SH06 Год назад +4

    That was great. Thanks.

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 Год назад +6

    Very interesting interview!

  • @lucapiron393
    @lucapiron393 Год назад +6

    Thank you gentlemen!

  • @titancloud
    @titancloud Год назад +8

    Thought provoking, well done.

  • @saattlebrutaz
    @saattlebrutaz Год назад +48

    We were promised flying cars, what we got were ultra cheap ultra safe flights from NY to LA that literally anyone could afford. We got open heart surgery on an out-patient basis. We got bigger, quieter, safer, cleaner homes. We got the internet, infinite information the ability to communicate with anyone anytime anywhere. Flying cars exist, they are called helicoptors, and the are very expensive to maintain because when you put something in the air, the oversight requirements go up 100x. And what is the advantage of being in the air?

  • @marshallalbritton9521
    @marshallalbritton9521 Год назад +3

    Excellent thank you

  • @sammyhagger12
    @sammyhagger12 Год назад +30

    More Thiel videos please

  • @joshuap9580
    @joshuap9580 Год назад +17

    one interesting thing to me is its hard to tell exactly the limits of the application of a technology, and which ones will sort of run into a physical limitation versus which techs are poised for a leap in sophistication. batterys are a recent example, they have enabled smaller and smaller tech devices, which enabled entirely new products, etc. The generational impact issue is completely related to high housing prices in desirable locations. of course if young generation cant afford property, they cant/wont build the same wealth as their parents (unless they inherit it).

  • @ViaraLazarova
    @ViaraLazarova Год назад +4

    Brilliant⭐️

  • @PatrickFerryCoach
    @PatrickFerryCoach Год назад +2

    Yes yes yes, thank you

  • @mickqld3003
    @mickqld3003 Год назад +4

    Great to see this vid get so many views and deserves many more likes.
    Those (Like Henry Rowen) who decided that somehow China will become a Democracy (by 2015 :):)
    are either feeling a bit daft or pleased their bs lasted another 25 years.
    Personally, I feel it's the latter. I don't think they were that thick.
    I don't remember seeing reports that China said anything like that would happen.
    We thought this would happen and maybe that that too.. I don't think so.
    It was a fifty year plan, since Nixon & Co.

  • @williamthackeray1440
    @williamthackeray1440 Год назад +13

    What is the paper mentioned at 38:14?

  • @Artcore103
    @Artcore103 Год назад +17

    Lol "by the time this airs we'll know (if Blake masters has won)"... it's two days after the election and we still don't know and may not for some time!

  • @johnfisher2495
    @johnfisher2495 Год назад +2

    Peter Thiel and Steven Pinker seem to be on opposite sides as to wether we are making progress. I get the feeling Thiel is starting from how he wants things to be and builds a philosophy from there.

  • @alisonadams9057
    @alisonadams9057 Год назад

    Excellent discussion

  • @bruceli9094
    @bruceli9094 Год назад +8

    America needs to be MORE than California.

  • @muskduh
    @muskduh Год назад

    thanks for the video

  • @Political.Commentary
    @Political.Commentary Год назад +2

    Peter is incredibly smart - an obvious statement. I really like him !

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 Год назад +7

    Glad this power is used for good

  • @hernan.guerrero8362
    @hernan.guerrero8362 Год назад +11

    TL:DR Sugestion. Place some Bookmarks to make it more appealing

  • @jakenovak2556
    @jakenovak2556 Год назад +31

    Peter Thiel needs to educate the republican leadership

  • @DirkSorensby
    @DirkSorensby Год назад

    Mr. Thiel, good thoughts. I'll make anything you wish to build, fast. look me up. Thank you for the reason and ideas.

  • @vandergruff
    @vandergruff Год назад +14

    Can Peter Thiel save Germany from the people trying to destroy it?

  • @MrDantyson
    @MrDantyson Год назад +32

    Thiel is the closest thing to a real live vampire, don’t insult the rebels like that.

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 Год назад +11

    What happened? The private sector became emperor - that’s what happened.

  • @MrJoel9679
    @MrJoel9679 Год назад +15

    If capitalism is an expression of free will and the ability to navigate between Armageddon and the Antichrist, then which systems of financial expression are going to lead one way or another? If all companies become public and are owned by one corporation you get one anticompetitive regime. If all companies are private and ownership is diverse you have the risk of a rogue innovator. That said, I know which one has more counterbalances.

  • @laurenglass4514
    @laurenglass4514 Год назад +13

    He is one of my favorite “thinkers” and has invested his money in Blake Masters in Arizona election. I guess this was taped before any of this happened.

  • @jgv1
    @jgv1 Год назад

    Hi Hoover Institution- how come you guys drop new videos and youtube does not immediately alert me. I get junk notification, but your brilliant work?

  • @Jarede56
    @Jarede56 Год назад

    Peter is an elite thinker

  • @shanemichaelyee
    @shanemichaelyee Год назад +1

    Nice dialogue

  • @caliboosted
    @caliboosted Год назад +12

    He looks younger… again.

  • @aaron1983
    @aaron1983 Год назад +1

    The future of governance ideology is won by that which harnesses technology most astutely. Will the wanton use of technology of one country, Machiavellian in history, allow them to come to ascendancy but eventually become their downfall, at the expense of humanity?

  • @Anthrofuturism
    @Anthrofuturism Год назад +2

    He emerges

  • @bethlemmon
    @bethlemmon Год назад +7

    I love the analogy of the Republican party, the Star Wars rag tag group, you got Princess Leah, CHewbacca, Hans Solo, and C3PO's types, that are a rebel alliance, but are diverse.... love that and it's so true! Gonna steal that one.

  • @salingproductions
    @salingproductions Год назад +2

    Peter is the man

  • @listener523
    @listener523 Год назад +13

    By the time this airs we'll know the outcome in Arizona.....
    Oh my sweet summer child....

  • @EdHardy-ou7oo
    @EdHardy-ou7oo Год назад +2

    You need to talk with Perer Zeihan

  • @davidsilbermann8903
    @davidsilbermann8903 Год назад

    decided:subscribed

  • @CasperLCat
    @CasperLCat Год назад +1

    Who says we have to “beat” China or they’ll “beat” us ? The current and future success of everyone now depends on interdependent relationships that benefit all parties. My iPhone is designed here but made there; we need them to buy our T bonds and they need the US dollar, AND our economy which backs it, to stay viable.
    Robinson’s whole premise here is obsolete and zero-sum thinking that can only end in failure given the globalized tech-empowered world we have NOW, which isn’t going away, no matter what your political attitude.

  • @goodfortunedj
    @goodfortunedj Год назад +3

    I feel Thiel

  • @thematador6377
    @thematador6377 Год назад +3

    Advanced technologies are being withheld from the people.

  • @nicobruin8618
    @nicobruin8618 Год назад +8

    "Agenté provacuteur"

  • @trackdusty
    @trackdusty Год назад +4

    Maybe China saw what was happening in the western Democracies and saw that against their national interest.

  • @JohnFredericks-hc7nj
    @JohnFredericks-hc7nj Год назад

    This is reason.

  • @laurenglass4514
    @laurenglass4514 Год назад +10

    We dont know the answer because of the way the voting is run in Arizona , the republicans were not in charge of correcting the voting irregularities

  • @anonymousAJ
    @anonymousAJ Год назад +11

    33:30 "True liberalism has never been tried"
    In fact true liberalism has been tried and worked quite well. We stopped enforcing the law due to the advent of mass psychology (propaganda), which is now disintegrating as we face a larger world where information is radically more free and porous

  • @mikelis106
    @mikelis106 Год назад +9

    the greatest americans i see weren't born in america. peter is one of them.

  • @ivankissiov
    @ivankissiov Год назад +1

  • @blueeyedgenghis7365
    @blueeyedgenghis7365 Год назад +15

    Pete needs to go the Bezos route, get on TRT and start a space program

  • @rey82rey82
    @rey82rey82 Год назад

    21:10

  • @johndoez6481
    @johndoez6481 Год назад

    🇺🇸

  • @amram86
    @amram86 Год назад +1

    First.

  • @thoroughbred2741
    @thoroughbred2741 Год назад

    DIVERSITY

  • @da_revo5747
    @da_revo5747 Год назад

    23:44