I don’t see how it is cognitive dissonance. I’ve always found her rational and humane in the past, as opposed to almost everyone on that list.
I live in a neighbouring country, and we share a language, so her views are not exactly unknown to me. Her being anywhere close to Thiel & co makes little sense to me.
This is just my take and in parts a guess since obviously I didn’t go there.
Peter Thiel is not Dr. Evil. He’s just a guy with a lot of resources and name recognizition, so he can invite people to a conference. People get together to talk. Somebody attending does not mean they agree with whoever organized the thing.
And specifically: Kaja Kallas attending does not change who Kaja Kallas is. Her party is the Estonian Reform Party, a conservative liberal party, so it kind of tracks that she hangs out with business leaders. Most importantly (I think), it doesn’t change her awesome work and results in EU against Russian belligerence.
So the dissonance: you (seem to) think that everyone who goes to a Thiel conference is some sort of a crook. But here’s a person who is obviously not a crook. Perhaps the first assumption was wrong?
Fair enough, but having kept an eye on what Thiel does (and says), I do find him to be a pretty problematic person in general for many reasons.
On the other hand, I agree with you about Kallas and specifically her views on Russia, etc. It is a pretty conservative country in many ways, so that part also makes sense.
Maybe it’s because of her role in the EU now, but I still can’t see a lot of overlap between her and many of the others on that list, Thiel notwithstanding. He’s just weird and not in a good way.
I don’t see how it is cognitive dissonance. I’ve always found her rational and humane in the past, as opposed to almost everyone on that list.
I live in a neighbouring country, and we share a language, so her views are not exactly unknown to me. Her being anywhere close to Thiel & co makes little sense to me.
Do you care to explain further?
This is just my take and in parts a guess since obviously I didn’t go there.
Peter Thiel is not Dr. Evil. He’s just a guy with a lot of resources and name recognizition, so he can invite people to a conference. People get together to talk. Somebody attending does not mean they agree with whoever organized the thing.
And specifically: Kaja Kallas attending does not change who Kaja Kallas is. Her party is the Estonian Reform Party, a conservative liberal party, so it kind of tracks that she hangs out with business leaders. Most importantly (I think), it doesn’t change her awesome work and results in EU against Russian belligerence.
So the dissonance: you (seem to) think that everyone who goes to a Thiel conference is some sort of a crook. But here’s a person who is obviously not a crook. Perhaps the first assumption was wrong?
Fair enough, but having kept an eye on what Thiel does (and says), I do find him to be a pretty problematic person in general for many reasons.
On the other hand, I agree with you about Kallas and specifically her views on Russia, etc. It is a pretty conservative country in many ways, so that part also makes sense.
Maybe it’s because of her role in the EU now, but I still can’t see a lot of overlap between her and many of the others on that list, Thiel notwithstanding. He’s just weird and not in a good way.