A few years ago, Peter Thiel wrote to Mark Zuckerberg: 70% of Millennials say they’re pro-socialist.
His conclusion: stop calling them stupid, and try to understand why.
His explanation was economic. Too much student debt, unaffordable housing, no capital. When you own nothing, you have no reason to defend the system.
He’s right. But that’s only half the story.
The other half is school.
School destroys critical thinking. Methodically. For fifteen years.
You learn to recite instead of question. To find the expected answer instead of the true one. To obey authority instead of reasoning for yourself.
When you’ve spent your youth outsourcing your thinking to an institution, it feels natural to outsource your life to an even bigger one: the State.
That’s why so many end up Marxist. Not by conviction. By conditioning.
And that conditioning is about to become a handicap.
We’re entering a world where AI does everything conformist, predictable and standardized better than we do. The only value left is thinking differently.
To create value tomorrow, you’ll need to be neurodivergent.
And someone who thinks differently and reasons from first principles almost always ends up seeing the same thing: the State, as it works today, destroys more value than it creates.
It’s no accident that Alex Karp created a fellowship at Palantir dedicated to neurodivergent talent. To him, in the age of AI, there are only two ways to have a future: master a real trade, or be neurodivergent.
But I’ll go further than Karp.
I believe neurodivergence isn’t the exception. It’s the natural state of the human mind.
Look at a four-year-old. They ask hundreds of questions a day. They take everything apart. They refuse any rule they don’t understand. They think from first principles without even knowing it’s a thing.
Then they go to school. And we spend fifteen years normalizing them.
School doesn’t shape minds. It sands them down.
The future belongs to those who survived the sanding.
9:34 AM · Nov 9, 2026
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