I guess I should tell a VC horror story. I probably shouldn't say who but I was invited to breakfast with a guy who invented the web browser, ostensibly to discuss American Dynamism and synthetic chemistry.

Anyway, what I thought was a brief warm up discussion turned into a high speed monologue on James Burnham that was so long I lost all sense of space, time, and feeling in my lower legs.

You might think there's only so much that can be said about James Burnham but that is incorrect. It turns out to be the Oracular source of write only line noise that powers all of SSL/TLS on the modern Internet. SpaceX makes about a billion dollars a year just retransmitting the self-encrypting ideas of Burnham back and forth through the atmosphere.

This incidentally also disproves Dark Forest Theory and solves the Fermi Paradox.