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10 days ago[Peter Thiel] finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.
- “In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.”
The part about “public-private partnerships” got me a little worried, but private rents seem to be limited to upkeeping fees and “ancillary facilities” like parking lots, not the housing units themselves, which I find reassuring.
By contrast, in the West “public-private” housing projects usually mean that the housing gets built by the government and then leased out to private corporations for the first 20 years or whatever. I remember visiting Hamburg’s “Hafen-City” development as part of an excursion (I was studying urban planning+traffic engineering at the time), which is developed along this line and finding that weird when I asked the guide about it.