As The Consensus Capital Machine has raged on, it has only further eradicated the survivability of contrarian perspectives.

I believe that the North Star for YC shifted from helping people understand how to build a company to maximizing the number of companies moving through the funnel.

Where startups used to be the tool of choice for rebels to break barriers, they’ve increasingly become a consensus norming funnel.

But the poison of Consensus formation has spread from capital deployment to culture formation. The prevalence of normativity infects every aspect of our lives . Independent critical thinking gives way to cultural adherence within the party line as contrarianism dies.