Depending on who you are, you may find it hilarious, fascinating, insufferable, or horrifying that one of the world’s most powerful men is obsessing over a figure from sermons and horror movies. But the ideas and influences behind these talks are key to understanding how Thiel sees his own massive role in the world—in politics, technology, and the fate of the species. And to really grasp Thiel’s katechon-and-Antichrist schtick, you need to go back to the first major lecture of his doomsday road show—which took place on an unusually hot day in Paris in 2023. No video cameras recorded the event, and no reporters wrote about it, but I’ve been able to reconstruct it by talking to people who were there.
Peter Thiel is a really weird guy. It’s too bad that money is a force multiplier for such weird people. Otherwise, freaks like this could just be ignored by the rest of us. Without money, he’d be forced to stand out on the sidewalk with a sign yelling crazy shit. Or the more modern equivalent - posting memes borrowed from other conservative cranks on Facebook until normal people just block him.
This guy is obsessed with the book The Sovereign Individual, too. I mean, the worldview of the authors of that book - it really has to be read to be believed…they really do cast the capitalists as the victims. The victims of labor activism.
And then there is Thiel’s thing with Curtis Yarvin…the fact that he’s also a believer in xtian eschatology and what seems to be rather typical Birch Society bullshit (fear of a “one world government”)…almost seems like rather basic bitch stuff. Hell, Hollywood has been pitching that kind of thing for how long? The Omen, The Seventh Sign, The Prince of Darkness, etc…you’d think all that money would buy something rather more interesting when it comes to philosophy.
Also, it’s really weird that article brings up Night of the Long Knives and nothing about Thiel being gay. Are people still afraid of him over that Gawker thing? I mean, that was some real “free speech maximalism” right there…
Don’t forget that thiel likely had his gay lover killed because of being gay (and probably the Epstein stuff)
And when you get to the part when you find out that they’re all fans or friends with Alexander Dugin - Putin’s philosopher and absolute psychopath, things get even more fun.
Warning: this is a nutjob extreme rw site that is host to writings by dugin (and others). Enter at the expense of your hope for humanity.
https://arktos.com/2025/03/18/an-even-deeper-state-and-the-dark-enlightenment/
https://arktos.com/2024/09/19/lacan-and-psychedelic-trumpism/
Like wtf ? People actually listen and worship this guy.
…and people called postmodernism a lot of masturbatory gibberish. Seeing the RW trying to rationalize their psychopathy is another thing altogether…
I’m still making my way through The Sovereign Individual, speaking of trying to rationalize psychopathy.
This thing reads like some programmer that got their first paycheck in their teens-to-early-20s, and because they are outraged at the government “taking” from them, and since they read Ayn Rand at 15 (and never really shrugged it off), they decided to open their word processor and start writing a manifesto about how things are supposed to work according to someone with permanent arrested development shaking their fist at having to pay taxes. In this case, it’s two authors, so they actually had a little circle jerk as they wrote this mess, I take it. I’m wondering if they sat there goading each other on, crafting more and more ways to express their absolute loathing of labor, government, any form of collectivism whatsoever, etc…