Not quite sure why he thought that would be necessary if they were the puppet behind the current government

I had similar from a work colleague about a month ago. He also claimed the stated aim of the fabians is a violent revolution.

Who does Thiel see himself as in this analogy? I doubt it's Saruman, who's the sucker. More likely Sauron, in which why would anyone trust the company and not just assume a similar unreliablity?

Same with thiel and palantir. Why would you name a data company after an artifact that provided the illusion of being "all seeing", but was corrupted to misdirect

Yeah but it was fairly easy to remember the 3 digit phone number we had until circa 1990

Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.

It's a very loose adaptation, that just about manages to capture some of the spirit of the source.
The fist series is worth a watch, but the second is garbage

One of my work colleagues floored me a few weeks ago by insisting a founding principal of the fabians is violent revolution.

Why they haven't made more of Hunt's multiple NI cuts being part of the problem I don't understand