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Peter Thiel (yes that Peter Theil) will give a four-lecture presentation on The Antichrist (www.thenerdreich.com)

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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.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

The elites always seem to have this “honour amongst thieves” thing between them

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.