Palantir CEO Alex Karp said on Tuesday that people should forget everything they learned in college about the way the world works because what they have been taught is likely a lie.
Karp made the remarks during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” while talking about his new book.
“Everything you learned at your school and college about how the world works is intellectually incorrect,” he said, noting that his book is “a way of seeing the world that may not be right, but it’s not wrong.”
“And so trying to be right is very hard, but you can definitely know what’s wrong,” he said. “And what you’ve been taught in college, that you basically should have no beliefs, that the West is inferior, that the intellectual tradition of the West, it leads to self-flagellation and losing on the battlefield, losing intellectually, losing your party, losing your country, losing your border, that your institutions can’t work because we’re so good. It’s actually wrong. And the West was actually never about that.”
“You can be good, decent, and win, and be intellectually correct,” he continued.
He said that the way that incentive structures are changing is forcing home hard realities that Americans will have to adjust to, including things like institutions having to “actually live up to their core mandate.”
“A country has to have a border. The educational institutions have to work,” he continued. “The military actually has to be scary.”
He noted that the West is “obviously superior” to other parts of the world and that it is important to recognize that basic fact and be proud of it.
“We had a pagan religion that has infiltrated our universities,” he said. “And that pagan religion basically says, everything that’s good about America, everything that actually works, is ipso facto bad.”
“And by the way, you can’t talk about it not working because it’s a religion. And it’s a new religion. It’s not an old great religion, Judaism, Christianity,” he continued. “It’s a new religion, and the tenets are, West is bad, nothing can work. If it works, it’s bad. And that way of thinking has corroded every aspect of our psyche.”
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