Nassim Taleb, hedge-fund adviser and author of “The Black Swan,” may be a prophet of doom when it comes to the perilous state of financial markets, but, in a rare splash of cheer, he says he’s optimistic about the future overall.

He recently went on Ron Paul’s Liberty Report to spread his rosy view of what lies ahead, which he described as “a libertarian’s dream”:

“ ‘We’re going to be able to destroy what needs to be destroyed and build what needs to be built in an emergent, organic self-organized way.’ ” — Nassim Taleb

So what needs to be destroyed, exactly?

Taleb, like the man he supports in the White House, probably wouldn’t miss the New York Times NYT, -0.99% too much if it were to disappear.

“We have today so many people sitting in the New York Times Washington office, in an air-conditioned office, who can dictate foreign policy with zero risk,” he said.

Taleb added that we are no longer “victims of the New York Times,” thanks in part to Twitter’s role in shaking up the traditional news flow.

Another entity he’d be fine without, of course, is the Federal Reserve. He used this metaphor to describe what’s been happening in recent years.

“ ‘Let’s imagine you have pilots who were absolutely unharmed by crashes. People are stupid enough to put them back on planes. Then they would crash a plane, kill all passenger and continue. Well, that system would lead to complete systemic destruction.’ ” — Nassim Taleb

Without the Federal Reserve, Taleb said that “the price of money would be negotiated between people.”

He pointed to bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.51% , which continues to explode to new highs, as part of some sort of “organic order” in the future.

“You cannot have incompetence, serial incompetence, for such a long time without some kind of pushback,” Taleb said.

Watch the full interview: