State Sponsored Innovation FAILS Without an Existential Threat

Posted on 10/17/2011 by Jonah

Peter Thiel’s National Review article on the decline of innovation in 1 sentence.

America / Western Civ can no longer innovate because it has no internal or external enemies, only threat of annihilation can overcome human nature’s aversion to the fear / deadly career risk of supporting innovation.

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