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SUMMARY:Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
LOCATION:Starbucks near Queen Sirikit National Convention Center
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 18% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nElon Musk is the world's richest man and the largest dono
 r to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. But why have Musk and so m
 any other tech billionaires moved to the right over the past decade or so?
 \n\nIn Gilded Rage\, author Jacob Silverman examines how and why tech the 
 tech billionaires that influence so much of our lives have become\, in his
  words\, "radicalized." Join us at the August meeting of the Technology an
 d Society book club as we discuss Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicaliz
 ation of Silicon Valley.\n\nBook Description from Amazon:\nA PUBLISHERS WE
 EKLY BEST BOOK OF 2025\nA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025\n\n'Lively and
  provocative' FINANCIAL TIMES\n'Makes a convincing case for how tech becam
 e radicalized' BLOOMBERG\n\nWhat happens if the world's richest and most p
 owerful men decide to dismantle democracy?\n\nIn Gilded Rage\, New York Ti
 mes bestselling author Jacob Silverman takes us inside the surreal\, high-
 stakes world of Silicon Valley. This is the story of the political awakeni
 ng and radicalization of a cabal of tech billionaires and their descent in
 to ideological extremism. Flush with cash from the zero-interest era\, add
 icted to their own mythology\, these men have began reshaping the world in
  their image - and it should terrify us all.\n\nAt the center is Elon Musk
 \, the mogul whose obsession with the “woke mind virus” has turned him fro
 m a tech innovator to an ideological crusader. But Musk is just the beginn
 ing. Silverman maps a sprawling network of radicalized elites - from Peter
  Thiel and JD Vance to the financiers bankrolling Donald Trump - who are u
 sing their platforms and their money to ensure a political revolution that
 's already underway.\n\nWe meet the billionaires funding life-extension la
 bs and embracing apocalyptic visions of AI. We examine the populist rhetor
 ic that is leading to the ruthless dismantling of democratic norms. And we
  enter the strange\, darkly comic world of the tech-oligarchy where libert
 arian dreams meet authoritarian impulses\, and where the people with the m
 ost influence over our lives are the least accountable.\n\nSilverman trave
 ls from San Francisco to Miami\, New York to DC\, following a movement tha
 t's rewriting the rules and oftentimes fighting a war against reality itse
 lf. With sharp reporting and a cast of extraordinary characters\, Gilded R
 age is a gripping\, essential dispatch from the front lines of the billion
 aire revolution.
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