A new work 10 years after the sensational 『Eurasian Travels』!
A New American Perspective from an "Omniscient American Perspective"

Author Lee Byeong-han, who received enthusiastic love from readers through his "Eurasian Journey," which traveled to 100 countries and 1000 cities over 1000 days, has published a new work 10 years after "Eurasian Journey."
This time, it's America! The gospel of "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) is resonating across America.
This 'new' America opposes the established globalization, liberalism, and multiculturalism, and raises the banners of nationalism, illiberalism, and white Christian fundamentalism as its counterpoint.
And at the heart of it all is not the political elite of Washington or the economic elite of Wall Street, but a young techno force centered around Silicon Valley.


So who's behind this new plan? It's not Trump.
He is just an iconic player, not a designer.
This book focuses on four key figures who are deeply entrenched in America today.
Peter Thiel, founder of the world's first internet bank, PayPal; Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX; Alex Karp, Frankfurt School philosopher and CEO of Palantir Technologies; and JD, Trump's new vice president for his second term.
Vance.
To understand the direction of America and the world, we must deeply study and explore the backgrounds of these four people.
This book is the first and only book of that 'exploration'.
From an 'omniscient American perspective,' we delve deep into the heart of America, a country facing a great transformation in civilization.

Thiel moved to the Founders Fund offices with his comrades.
The opportunity to rebuild America was finally opening up.
It was clear that Thiel would take a key position on the transition team.
We had to quickly put together a team to take over and reform America with him.
No one really liked Trump.
But their respect and trust for their boss, Till, was limitless.
Like a contrarian bet that went all-in on a reverse bet, Trump might become this country's creative destroyer.
It had the potential to inject Silicon Valley innovation into Washington.
If that heretic holds power for eight years, the tech-friendly new world long dreamed of by the Founders Fund and the Thiel Foundation could come one step closer.

--- p.36

After about three minutes, the audience finally quieted down and began to listen to him.
When I was young, there was a huge debate about how to defeat the Soviet Union.
But now the country is debating who should use which bathroom.
It is a satire on the growing discussion over the eight years of Obama's presidency about the need to create restrooms that reflect diverse gender identities.
He shouted angrily, saying that this was not a real problem in our country and that it didn't really matter who used which bathroom.
(…) And finally, the next line that everyone remembers follows.
“Of course, we Americans each have our own unique identity.
I am proud to be gay.
I'm also proud to be a Republican.
But more than anything, I am proud to be an American.” The message was, “Please stop talking about identity politics and come together as one great American.”
(…) USA! USA! USA! The public finally began to respond in a big way.
Trump also jumped to his feet and joined in the chant of USA! USA! USA! YES! YES! YES! Till responded with a radiant grin, his teeth clearly visible.
It was a moment when Silicon Valley's godfathers and the grassroots, low-educated working class people united as patriotic conservatives.
(…) The tectonic shift began, and the American political landscape began to change dramatically.

--- p.40

If Steve Jobs designed products by connecting technology with art, Peter Thiel tried to redesign the architecture of the world by connecting technology with politics.
Looking back, Thiel's first startup, PayPal in 1998, was a marriage of technology and politics.
(…) Founders Fund, launched with the huge sums of money he had after selling PayPal to eBay, was a political project through and through.
(…) It seemed closer to a research institute or think tank than an investment firm.
Their job was simply to find the rough, mutant gemstones, not to waste time polishing and polishing them.
So, we decided not to expel the eccentric founders with rebellious tendencies, no matter how bizarre their actions were.
(…) Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Airbnb, Spotify, Ethereum, DeepMind, Palantir, etc.
A paradigm shift occurred, with the generation shifting from Jobs, born in 1955, to Thiel, born in 1967, and power in the village shifting.
That's why Thiel can be called the godfather of the PayPal mafia.

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During my difficult childhood, my only escape was the virtual world.
(…) Musk’s unique literary, historical, and philosophical style was created.
Literature is not a classic, but science fiction; history is not a thousand-year unit of ancient-medieval-modern times, but a long-termism of hundreds of thousands and hundreds of millions of years; philosophy is not the gradualism of the alphabet, but the hyper-acceleration of computers.
I devoured Isaac Asimov's "Foundation," Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is Mistress of the Night," and Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
I imagined a very distant future where we would leave our home ground called Earth and go on expeditions to the moon and other stars to build a new galactic civilization.
(…) That great first step is Mars.
Humanity must set foot on Mars and advance deeper into space.
I will definitely go to Mars before I die.
There is no time to rest.
You have to run without stopping.
The longing burns.
With a burning thirst, I shout, “Long live technology!”

--- p.90

X is Musk's symbol.
His son's name also includes X, and the original name of the company that merged with PayPal was X.com.
The aerospace company's name is also SpaceX, and Twitter's logo changed from a dove to an X, and the company name was also changed to X Corporation.
And the artificial intelligence company is also x.AI.
It's literally all X, X-man.
(…) This provides a clue to understanding Musk’s business style.
Connecting diverse fields such as the Internet, energy, space, and artificial intelligence to create innovative results.
(…) Therefore, to fully understand Elon Musk, we must take a closer look at SpaceX, not Tesla.
In fact, the first company to be created after selling PayPal was SpaceX.
(…) It is no exaggeration to say that the X-Files, the alpha and omega of X-Men Elon, are contained entirely in SpaceX.

--- p.94

In the past, when NASA was leading the space program, the space shuttle was assembled using various parts brought in from various companies across the United States.
It took longer and cost more.
(…) After the space shuttle returned to Earth, an even more ridiculous scene unfolded.
It had to cross the United States for inspection and maintenance work.
The rocket engine was maintained in Alabama, the solid rocket booster was inspected in Utah, and the main body was repaired in Los Angeles, California.
He had to travel the globe and the United States, transporting large shuttle aircraft to various parts of the country.
Musk, who must achieve his long-term vision through hyper-acceleration, could not help but be horrified by this state-led space venture.

--- p.100

Tesla is an energy company rather than an electric car company.
Electric vehicles are one of the ways to build a sustainable energy ecosystem.
(…) In short, Tesla is a comprehensive energy platform that makes all the electricity in the world flow like air.
(…) On April 23, 2024, Tesla announced its transformation into an AI company.
Tesla vehicles will become a platform for autonomous driving AI.
If you replace the shell of an electric car with a robot, that's a Teslabot.
(…) However, the most important mission that Optimus must carry out is space exploration, such as lunar exploration and Mars colonization.
AI robots are absolutely essential in areas where humanity is moving beyond Earth and creating a civilization of life in outer space.
Humanoid robots equipped with artificial intelligence will become companions of Sapiens and accompany them on space exploration.
In other words, Tesla can ultimately be said to be a company that serves SpaceX's mission.
It's about going to Mars in a Tesla.

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If the 2010s were the era of Steve Jobs and the 2020s were the era of Elon Musk, the 2030s will likely be remembered as the era of Alex Karp.
A messy, uncombed hairstyle will also be remembered as the eccentric appearance of a genius scientist like Einstein.
Just as one waits in the dark, hiding one's light, Palantir's secretive development of various software without revealing itself is likely to be compared to Oppenheimer's leadership in creating nuclear weapons.
All the gossip surrounding Kapf, such as showing up at a formal dinner in tracksuits or attending an investor meeting in ski wear, will likely be remembered as legendary anecdotes rather than happenings.

--- p.142

[Kapp] could not rest content with being a third generation member of the Frankfurt School.
The Republic of Letters University was no longer the darling of the zeitgeist.
We had to enter the midst of the digital revolution.
The vanguard of discourse production was not academia, the media, or the publishing world.
Tech companies and companies are shaping the zeitgeist.
There, he sought to creatively inherit the school.
He leaves Europe again and returns to the United States.
He decides to become a doctor of philosophy and head of a tech company.
He became a philosopher of technology and a thinker of technology.
So, the company that was born in 2003 is Palantir Technologies.
Palantir's vision is to build an ethical digital civilization where data serves humanity, rather than humans becoming slaves to data.

--- p.152

It's the first achievement in 10 years since 9/11.
The assassination of Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in a remote area of ​​Pakistan, was successful.
The program that was used to find and kill the leader of the terrorist group and the leader of the rebellion was Palantir's defense service, GOTHAM.
By analyzing electricity consumption and waste disposal in real time, they detected signs of abnormality and accurately identified the house where Bin Laden's group was hiding.
(…) The battlefield where Palantir, which has improved its performance through the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, has demonstrated its true value is Ukraine.
(…) Two companies stood out.
In the sky, SpaceX provided Starlink's communications network.
In the virtual world, Palantir provided the command operations program.
(…) This is why the Russia-Ukraine war is considered the first AI war of the digital age.
Data shows a future war where missiles win.

--- p.169

[Vance] felt like his days at Yale Law School were a surreal fantasy.
But on the other hand, I also felt a deep sense of alienation.
Because it was so different from the world in which he was born and raised.
As expected from a prestigious university, it emphasized DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), but my classmates were not diverse at all.
Those from working-class backgrounds were extremely rare, and those from retired Marine Corps backgrounds were even rarer.
There were many more friends from the upper class who received living expenses from their parents equivalent to the salary they had saved during their four years in the military.
It was a stronghold of the privileged class.
I felt a sense of inferiority as an outsider, a country bumpkin from a poor family.
The gap seemed so large that no matter how hard I tried, it couldn't be bridged.
From what they ate to what they wore, Abitus was so different.
Dinner and socializing at fancy restaurants was awkward, uncomfortable, and a chore.
Vance began to see society not from left to right, but from top to bottom.
We discovered the Deep State, a entrenched elite world operating through a network of insiders.

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In 2011, Vance met the leader of his life, a mentor.
Peter Thiel came to Yale University to give a lecture.
Although he attended the event without any particular expectations, it was a moment that completely changed his life.
Thiel sharply criticized the elite world symbolized by Yale Law School.
It presented a completely different perspective on social success and purpose in life.
He emphasized that America's elite culture, obsessed with status competition, is hindering innovation across the nation.
He constantly competes to get a higher position, but he warns us not to waste our youth on an empty and meaningless life.
It encouraged me to dream big dreams and take on challenges that could actually change the world.
Vance said he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
(…) I began to ponder why I was born, what I want to do, and what I will live my life for.
It made me ask fundamental and fundamental questions that I had never been able to ask in my haste to survive.
(…) Vance follows Till to the West.
Leave the elite world of the East and meet the innovators of the West.
Arrived in Silicon Valley.

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