Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, is backing an idea to construct "quasi-sovereign" nations based on floating platforms out at sea. Acknowledging that this is the latest in a long line of similar schemes that never went past the early planning stages, Mr. Thiel says,
(T)he idea is to do it in a way that's not crazy.
Yes, that "crazy" hurtle is always the toughest. To quote the late Pete and Dud on being called a nutcase,
They said the same of Jesus Christ, Freud, and Galileo.
They said it of a lot of nutcases too.
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