I found the essay "Peter Thiel's Religion" to be very helpful in framing Thiel's worldview, and really in framing a lot of the worldview of Silicon Valley and the rat-adjacent community in general.

Link to Paul Fussell's “Guide Through The American Class System” essay is dead, here is an archive of the page.

Funny enough, this is *exactly* what is happening over at https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/