{"id":1891717,"date":"2026-04-19T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1891717"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:19:47","slug":"palantir-posted-a-manifesto-that-reads-like-the-ramblings-of-a-comic-book-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1891717","title":{"rendered":"Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/h23jpxEn2ACh_BiWmemHug&#8211;\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-04\/29ff6353-18b0-4a7e-b706-763b1c5e006b&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"article-8dbf25d4-a8c4-4c94-88b6-60bc90432b77\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto md:px-10 md:max-w-[1220px]\">\n<nav class=\"prestige-breadcrumb relative mx-4 md:mx-0\" aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<ol class=\"no-scrollbar overflow-scroll whitespace-nowrap text-battleship\">\n<li class=\"inline\">\n<li class=\"inline-block cursor-default last:pr-10 md:last:pr-20 font-bold\">Big tech<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<header class=\"mb-4 px-4 md:mb-6 md:px-0\">\n<h1 class=\"layout-h1 my-2 font-bold leading-tight\">Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"my-2 text-[18px] font-light leading-5 md:max-w-[660px] md:text-[20px]\/[28px]\">Hey, um, your evil is showing.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"flex-col items-start lg:flex lg:flex-row lg:items-center lg:justify-between mt-6\">\n<div class=\"relative md:mr-[10px]\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n<div class=\"flex mr-2\">\n<div class=\"shrink-0 cursor-pointer inline-block size-[42px] lg:size-[48px]\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt role=\"img\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full rounded-full object-cover object-center shadow-[0_0_0_2px_#ffffff]\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/25VCJEDlyhvGdlO1clrMig--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTgwO2g9ODA-\/https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2023-09%2F04b773d0-5cbd-11ee-bbee-fb1bf060105b&amp;compress=1&amp;progressive=1&amp;quality=75&amp;client=hawkeye&amp;signature=0cbacc2ca3cac6650f7a242f12d6f4c7d37ff457\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-block\">\n<div class=\"w-max text-sm\/5 font-semibold lg:!flex flex items-center\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col\">\n<div class=\"flex w-max items-center\">Cheyenne MacDonald<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"font-normal sm:before:inline-block\">Weekend Editor<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lg:hidden\">\n<div class=\"text-xs text-dolphin dark:text-shark md:text-sm\/5 pt-4\">\n<div class=\"inline-block\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-19T18:19:47.000Z\">Sun, April 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM UTC<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ml-0 mt-4 flex items-center lg:ml-3 lg:mt-0\">\n<div class=\"ml-0 mr-2\">\n<div class=\"relative flex\">Add Engadget on Google<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden lg:block\">\n<div class=\"text-xs text-dolphin dark:text-shark md:text-sm\/5 pt-4\">\n<div class=\"inline-block\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-19T18:19:47.000Z\">Sun, April 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM UTC<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-1 gap-x-8 lg:gap-x-0 mx-auto md:px-10 md:max-w-[1220px] md:grid-cols-[[main-start]_1fr_[main-end_right-start]_min-content_[right-end]] lg:!gap-x-8\">\n<div class=\"md:col-main\" data-i13n-boundary=\"true\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_minmax(auto,750px)_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden fig-image-round left-1\/2 w-screen -translate-x-1\/2 md:left-0 md:w-auto md:translate-x-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"object-cover object-center\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/_pNfa9LcHuQusS5BAkGc9g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/_vIMrNdEBwKXX6UCYnbh0w--~B\/aD0zOTMzO3c9NTkwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-04\/29ff6353-18b0-4a7e-b706-763b1c5e006b\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-[0.875rem]\/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 mt-2.5 md:mt-2 pr-2.5\">\n<div><span>REUTERS \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:grid-cols-article lg:max-w-[750px] drop-cap\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In case you haven&#8217;t gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska&#8217;s 2025 book, <em>The Technological Republic,<\/em> (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company best known for supplying AI-driven defense and surveillance software to the likes of the US Army, ICE and NYPD shared a 1,000-word X post this weekend covering its main points. The entire thing is both bizarre and deeply concerning.\u00a0&#8220;The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal,\u201d one of the 22 points states. &#8220;It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The book is billed as &#8220;a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality,&#8221; and other excerpts in the social media post include assertions such as: &#8220;Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public&#8221;; &#8220;National service should be a universal duty&#8221;; &#8220;The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone&#8221;; and &#8220;Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The statement criticizes the West\u2019s resistance to &#8220;defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity,&#8221; as well as the treatment of billionaires and the &#8220;ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures.&#8221; It&#8217;s a lot to take in, and it should make crystal clear what Palantir stands for to anyone who somehow didn&#8217;t already know. Here&#8217;s the post, in full:<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_cd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_kd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-text-color col-body mb-4 border-l-2 pl-5 italic dark:text-bob\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Because we get asked a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><em>The Technological Republic<\/em>, in brief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">1. <strong>Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible.<\/strong> The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">2. <strong>We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps.<\/strong> Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">3. <strong>Free email is not enough.<\/strong> The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">4. <strong>The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed.<\/strong> The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">5. <strong>The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. <\/strong>Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">6. <strong>National service should be a universal duty. <\/strong>We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">7. <strong>If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software.<\/strong> We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">8. <strong>Public servants need not be our priests.<\/strong> Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">9. <strong>We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life.<\/strong> The eradication of any space for forgiveness\u2014a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche\u2014may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">10. <strong>The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray.<\/strong> Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">11. <strong>Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. <\/strong>The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">12. <strong>The atomic age is ending.<\/strong> One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">13. <strong>No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one.<\/strong> The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">14. <strong>American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace.<\/strong> Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations \u2014 billions of people and their children and now grandchildren \u2014 have never known a world war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">15. <strong>The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. <\/strong>The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">16. <strong>We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act.<\/strong> The culture almost snickers at Musk\u2019s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">17. <strong>Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.<\/strong> Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">18. <strong>The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service.<\/strong> The public arena\u2014and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves\u2014has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">19. <strong>The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive.<\/strong> Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">20. <strong>The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. <\/strong>The elite\u2019s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">21. <strong>Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive.<\/strong> All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">22. <strong>We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. <\/strong>We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller <em>The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West<\/em>, by Alexander C. Karp &amp; Nicholas W. Zamiska<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"md:col-main grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:grid-cols-article lg:max-w-[750px]\">\n<div class=\"no-scrollbar col-body mx-4 mb-8 mt-2.5 overflow-x-scroll whitespace-nowrap md:mx-0 md:max-w-[750px] md:overflow-x-visible md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto max-w-screen-sm\">\n<ul class=\"inline-flex text-xs md:text-sm\">\n<li class=\"mr-6\">About our ads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:grid-cols-article lg:max-w-[750px] drop-cap\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In case you haven&#8217;t gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska&#8217;s 2025 book, <em>The Technological Republic,<\/em> (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company best known for supplying AI-driven defense and surveillance software to the likes of the US Army, ICE and NYPD shared a 1,000-word X post this weekend covering its main points. The entire thing is both bizarre and deeply concerning.\u00a0&#8220;The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal,\u201d one of the 22 points states. &#8220;It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The book is billed as &#8220;a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality,&#8221; and other excerpts in the social media post include assertions such as: &#8220;Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public&#8221;; &#8220;National service should be a universal duty&#8221;; &#8220;The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone&#8221;; and &#8220;Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The statement criticizes the West\u2019s resistance to &#8220;defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity,&#8221; as well as the treatment of billionaires and the &#8220;ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures.&#8221; It&#8217;s a lot to take in, and it should make crystal clear what Palantir stands for to anyone who somehow didn&#8217;t already know. Here&#8217;s the post, in full:<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_cd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_kd9nam95feiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"flex size-full items-center justify-center bg-marshmallow text-center leading-3\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-text-color col-body mb-4 border-l-2 pl-5 italic dark:text-bob\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Because we get asked a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><em>The Technological Republic<\/em>, in brief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">1. <strong>Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible.<\/strong> The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">2. <strong>We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps.<\/strong> Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">3. <strong>Free email is not enough.<\/strong> The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">4. <strong>The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed.<\/strong> The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">5. <strong>The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. <\/strong>Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">6. <strong>National service should be a universal duty. <\/strong>We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">7. <strong>If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software.<\/strong> We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">8. <strong>Public servants need not be our priests.<\/strong> Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">9. <strong>We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life.<\/strong> The eradication of any space for forgiveness\u2014a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche\u2014may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">10. <strong>The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray.<\/strong> Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">11. <strong>Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. <\/strong>The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">12. <strong>The atomic age is ending.<\/strong> One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">13. <strong>No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one.<\/strong> The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">14. <strong>American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace.<\/strong> Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations \u2014 billions of people and their children and now grandchildren \u2014 have never known a world war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">15. <strong>The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. <\/strong>The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">16. <strong>We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act.<\/strong> The culture almost snickers at Musk\u2019s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">17. <strong>Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.<\/strong> Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">18. <strong>The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service.<\/strong> The public arena\u2014and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves\u2014has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">19. <strong>The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive.<\/strong> Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">20. <strong>The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. <\/strong>The elite\u2019s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">21. <strong>Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive.<\/strong> All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">22. <strong>We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. <\/strong>We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller <em>The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West<\/em>, by Alexander C. Karp &amp; Nicholas W. Zamiska<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/palantir-posted-a-manifesto-that-reads-like-the-ramblings-of-a-comic-book-villain-181947361.html&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/h23jpxEn2ACh_BiWmemHug&#8211;\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-04\/29ff6353-18b0-4a7e-b706-763b1c5e006b&#8221;] Big tech Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain Hey, um, your evil is showing. 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