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We can agree Alex Karps is a psycho now but his dissertations not so much a "here's a blueprint for how to kill people" and more "fascists are killing a lot of people, let's study how they're doing it to prevent it" like most Frankfurt school stuff.
This would be like saying orwell wrote a book about how to use language and surveillance to control people. Yeah some people took the torment nexus as a blueprint, but that was not Orwell's intention.
Karp was a surprisingly far left guy before palantir, eg. that's why he studied at the Frankfurt school under Habermas. He just got corrupted by the neocons who surrounded him and the ungodly horde he accrued over the years.
We like to imagine our villains as born killers, torturing animals in the crib; but the reality is they're just normal people who were deceived or corrupted into doing horrible things.
Orcs come in hordes, dragons sleep on hoards ^_^
Do you have a link to the paper? It'd be interesting to read, these ones were wondering what the facts on the ground were about that. Also language use is a special interest.
Here's an English translation of it as it was originally written in German because he wanted to impress daddy Habermas. Fair warning it is very esoteric and academic.
Thank you!
...the brain would not let this one not drop this, but at least it's not in the actual comment.
J Dragon Vance comes in hoards.
Karp didn’t study under Habermas, and Habermas declined Karp’s dissertation.
well afaik musolini was legit socialist before, doesnt abolish anyone. Where did you get Karp was far left before ?
Behind the bastards podcast did a series on him that went into his early life, I'd highly recommend it as it's interesting to see his journey from a red diaper baby, to a Marxist theorist, to heading a surveillance-ware empire.
A shorter version can be found on the early life section of his Wikipedia
And yes that is The Frankfurt school of Habermas and Adorno that the right wing claims formulated the Marxist critical theory that infected all the woke left.
here lies the answer + big money why karp went right, but still he is scumbag
That's even more puzzling now. That's an insane swing from far-left to far-right, how do you get there?
He strikes me more and more as a man of infinite contradictions.