can see the copy of Discourses over his right shoulder as he describes his personal war against Gawker in defense of a right he believes it threatened—privacy—and for what that privacy offers—the space to be peculiar, to think for oneself and to live as one wishes. The chef brings the first, second, and third courses as Thiel talks, revealing a painstakingly organized plot—the plan to reassert agency over a situation many believed was unchangeable, to protect something that most of his Silicon Valley peers had written off as an anachronism, but also to destroy an enemy and make the world a
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