Billionaire Marc Andreessen rejects deep thinking

US billionaire claims ‘deep thinking’ only goes back 400 years

Billionaire Marc Andreessen has claimed that “introspection” is of little value and only goes back 400 years. He also said he engages in “zero” or “as little as possible” deep thinking, noting that:

I find that people who dwell on the past, get stuck the past.

Ever heard of philosophy?

Andreessen, a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, made the comments on the Founders podcast:

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has “zero” introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention. pic.twitter.com/6bgxdxvfmt

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Andreessen claims:

If you go back 400 years ago, it would never have occurred to anybody to be introspective… Great men of history didn’t sit around doing this stuff at any prior point right?

He must be trolling, right? Even before Ancient Greece, highly influential philosophy in Persia (modern-day Iran) dates back to 1700–1800 BCE. Zarathustra, as well as Hammurabi’s Code (c. 1754 BCE), introduced revolutionary ethical concepts that later Western philosophers like Immanuel Kant built upon through Deontology (acting as if everyone followed your example). Then there’s the opposing theory: Utilitarianism (the greatest good for the greatest number).

No wonder Andreessen has ‘zero’ introspection. He clearly thinks little of established ethical frameworks. The billionaire probably finds it convenient not to reflect on his actions, as he now simply takes stakes in businesses and lets the money roll in. Meanwhile, 90 percent of Americans own just around 10 percent of the stocks.

Philosophy was the original subject, before Plato taught Aristotle in around 400-300 BCE. Aristotle then categorised study into different subjects. This was the literal foundation of Western academic thought and educational systems.

Introspection: high value

Introspection is highly important, but it must be coupled with study. Otherwise you are just going over ideas that prior thinkers have dedicated their lives to.

It’s obvious why billionaires want to promote mindless consumerism. The thing is, will people continue to dumb themselves down?

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Comments 2

Ed McKeon says:

3 months ago

In ‘The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt considered how people who were highly educated could so easily become genocidaires. She became preoccupied after the Eichmann trial with the thoughtlessness, clichés, conventional ways of thinking etc that protected him and his ilk from reflecting on the evil of their actions. The book is full of riches – greater than anything this shyster has – but one of its key conclusions is that the question of good and evil is a matter of ‘con-science’ ie the capacity for inner dialogue (look up the etymology).. As she puts it, ironically, only bad people enjoy a ‘good conscience’ (ie, one that doesn’t reflect badly on them) whilst only good people suffer ‘bad conscience’.

TheUnderdog says:

3 months ago

Globalists Have No Real World Experience (GHNRWE).
The term refers to the fact globalists, classically living-under-a-rock billionaires (and includes zionists, as well), have zero outside, real world experience. So they often express incredibly dumb, ignorant statements that ignore any factual reality. They’re incapable of the fundamental basics of research or learning. They suffer from ‘last Thursdayism’, assume things like prepared food appear out of thin air into store shelves, and are so shortsighted one wonders how they even know to tie their own shoelaces.
For example, one would ask him upon whose language does the written and spoken word originate? And has he ever heard of a thing called Greek tragedies? What about philosophers such as Plato? Confucius? Writers such as Shakespeare, Homer? The origin of Mathematics? Astrophysicists?
Alas, no, the bald man did not think before “opening his yap”. He made up a number, presumed it to be true, and then bumbled. He obviously doesn’t run his own company because if he did, I strongly suspect a poorly worded email from a ‘Nigerian Prince’ with some lottery fees he needed to go 50/50 on would have cost him everything by now.