cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35095129
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Antics Continue
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Peter Thiel has announced plans to deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. These unusual events will take place at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on four days in September and October.
Thiel, one of the most influential tech billionaires of our time, seems intent on forcing us to discuss the Antichrist. He is clearly trying to make a point. But what is that point?
Thiel’s lecture series won’t provide any clues to the public—it’s off the record. He’ll be delivering his lectures to an exclusive group of Antichrist-curious tech acolytes in a highly-controlled atmosphere.
Here’s the thing: this isn’t really about religion. It’s about power and politics, wrapped in theological language. Thiel has long been fascinated with political theorist Carl Schmitt’s ideas about “political theology”—the notion that all significant political concepts are secularized theological concepts.
You would think that a gay billionaire who’s obsessed with making himself immortal and putting forward intense surveillance and ushering in AI gods fervently would be most Christian’s definition of the antichrist. I know it’s mine, and I’m not even Christian anymore.
Edit: I am fine with the gay part, I just want to make that extremely clear before everyone rips me to shreds for being homophobic. I just think Thiel is evil.
The gay part is what makes it crazy, he thinks his money will protect him? The homophobia in the christian world is insane. Just because they’re nice to your face, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t hang you from a tree if they could. Fake nice is their thing.
What they think doesn’t matter. In his mind, he is above the plebs. Their wants and moralities are beneath his notice.
He useful till he ain’t…
If the people he’s financing ever really seizes control like he wants, the first thing they’d do is seize the wealth of private billionaires like him.
Why risk them staying supportive when you can just seize all their wealth for themselves?
The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them. They see eachother as actual humans, just not the rest of the humans. At least that’s how it’s always seemed to me.
Until they don’t…
This ain’t a hypothetical, we have thousands of years of recorded history. When wealth because concentrated and the wealthy seize the government, it doesn’t take long for the new government to start cannibalizing the very wealthy elites that put it in power.
That turns the remaining ones against the government.
They side with the poor, call it a revolution, and they end up as the biggest fish in a more equal pond.
This is literally how America became a country… And France funding us led to their revolution because they squeezed the poors to fund us.
This isn’t a new scenario, it happens all the time
We just need to prolong the good part of the cycle if we live thru it. But eventually our grandkids or their kids won’t remember and we’ll do it again.
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