He said Palantir could power the West to its obvious innate superiority.[1]
“The unfortunate thing, either in business or politics, is that many of one's adversaries and antagonists will never respond to anything but strength—that crude form of power that does not ask for but which requires compliance and deference. And so strength we have built.”
“As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.’
“He continued: ‘Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.’”[2]
do you think he is wrong when he says that the West's superiority primarily comes from power, rather than ideas or value or religion?
I actually think that the West's superiority is due to a multitude of factors (not just raw power), but I can see how the CEO of a company on their investor call would emphasize the thing that their company brings to the table. Palantir, as far as I know, is not in the business of religion, for example.
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