Peter1469
07-22-2014, 04:29 PM
OK, this has two articles. The first one is about the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley. Wealthy people with large carbon footprints giving donations to Greenpeace to feel better about themselves.... The second article is about Rand Paul's recent speech there. He seems to have won some of them over.
1. Hypocrisy of Silicon Valley liberals: (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383289/valley-shadow-victor-davis-hanson)
Silicon Valley is an American success story. At a time of supposed American decline, a gifted group of young entrepreneurs invented, merchandized, and institutionalized everything from smartphones and eBay to Google and Facebook. The collective genius within a small corridor from San Francisco to Stanford University somehow put hand-held electronics into over a billion households worldwide — and hundreds of billions of dollars in profits rolled into Northern California, and America at large.
Stranger yet, Silicon Valley excelled at 1950s-style profit-driven capitalism while projecting the image of hip and cool. The result is a bizarre 21st-century 1-percenter culture of $1,000-a-square-foot homes, $100,000 BMWs, and $500 loafers coexisting with left-wing politics and trendy pop culture. Silicon Valley valiantly tries to square the circle of driving a Mercedes or flying in a Gulfstream while lambasting those who produce its fuel.
2. Rand and Silicon Valley: (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/)
here’s a new apphttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/#) in Silicon Valley — conservatarianism. It’s the app that conservative Senator Rand Paul is pushing. He wants to join forces with local techies.
But how can technologyhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/#) and liberty flourish side by side? Paul’s answer, “shrink government.”
“Is government inherently stupid?” the Kentucky Republican the audience at the Lincoln Labs Reboot 2014. “I say no, but it’s a debatable question.”
Since Paul’s visit a new political term is being coded — the conservatarian… part conservative, part libertarian.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Garrett Johnson organized Senator Paul’s visit.
“It’s not that I agree with him 100% of the time,” said Johnson. “I don’t agree with my parents 100% of the time, but I still go home for Christmas and Thanksgiving every year.”
“I call myself a conservative with libertarian leanings,” said Evan Baehr, co-founder of Able. “Conservatarian? It’s new for me, but it’s a fit.”
1. Hypocrisy of Silicon Valley liberals: (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383289/valley-shadow-victor-davis-hanson)
Silicon Valley is an American success story. At a time of supposed American decline, a gifted group of young entrepreneurs invented, merchandized, and institutionalized everything from smartphones and eBay to Google and Facebook. The collective genius within a small corridor from San Francisco to Stanford University somehow put hand-held electronics into over a billion households worldwide — and hundreds of billions of dollars in profits rolled into Northern California, and America at large.
Stranger yet, Silicon Valley excelled at 1950s-style profit-driven capitalism while projecting the image of hip and cool. The result is a bizarre 21st-century 1-percenter culture of $1,000-a-square-foot homes, $100,000 BMWs, and $500 loafers coexisting with left-wing politics and trendy pop culture. Silicon Valley valiantly tries to square the circle of driving a Mercedes or flying in a Gulfstream while lambasting those who produce its fuel.
2. Rand and Silicon Valley: (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/)
here’s a new apphttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/#) in Silicon Valley — conservatarianism. It’s the app that conservative Senator Rand Paul is pushing. He wants to join forces with local techies.
But how can technologyhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/#) and liberty flourish side by side? Paul’s answer, “shrink government.”
“Is government inherently stupid?” the Kentucky Republican the audience at the Lincoln Labs Reboot 2014. “I say no, but it’s a debatable question.”
Since Paul’s visit a new political term is being coded — the conservatarian… part conservative, part libertarian.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Garrett Johnson organized Senator Paul’s visit.
“It’s not that I agree with him 100% of the time,” said Johnson. “I don’t agree with my parents 100% of the time, but I still go home for Christmas and Thanksgiving every year.”
“I call myself a conservative with libertarian leanings,” said Evan Baehr, co-founder of Able. “Conservatarian? It’s new for me, but it’s a fit.”