Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.
I still struggle to understand if these people (Thiel et al.) genuinely believe the “DOOM IS COMING, WE MUST DESTROY THE WORLD TO MAKE GOD HAPPY” stuff, or if they’re just trying to market their grifting to the religious people…
I suspect that Peter Thiel is one of these AI rationalists that seem so prevalent in the Bay Area. Or maybe an odd offshoot of them like the zizians. He certainly seems to embody a lot of the tendencies and rhetoric, though with a more evangelical bent.
People who are unfamiliar with these groups are going to never going to be able to truly grasp the intense psychosis they all exhibit. Behind the Bastards did a brief overview of them in it’s zizians episode that really is just the tip of the iceberg, but it’s not a bad introduction.
I will say if it’s option two it seems to be working I’ve heard the it doesn’t matter that where on the verge of ecological collapse because there’s no way to avoid it because the Bible predicted it from so many different religious folks
The religious stuff is almost certainly a grift