Peter Thiel’s Dangerous Ideology

I recently read The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession ↗, recently written by Laura Bullard ↗ on Wired about Peter Thiel’s obsession with the antichrist, and it’s terrifying. I’ve known Peter Thiel was a jackass for a long time, and his involvement in Facebook and Palantir were problematic, but I did not fully grasp the depth of how awful he is, and how much he has influenced so much of all of the terrible things going on currently in the world.

By Thiel’s telling, the modern world is scared, way too scared, of its own technology. Our “listless” and “zombie” age, he said, is marked by a growing hostility to innovation, plummeting fertility rates, too much yoga, and a culture mired in the “endless Groundhog Day of the worldwide web.” But in its neurotic desperation to avoid technological Armageddon—the real threats of nuclear war, environmental catastrophe, runaway AI—modern civilization has become susceptible to something even more dangerous: the Antichrist.

First, rather convenient that someone who has so much money invested in tech is going around telling people that trying to put safety in place, or slow down things like “AI” in the name of safety are somehow literally the anti-christ feels laughable, until you realize how dead serious he is.

But you don’t become a billionaire without believing in making money at the expense of literally everyone, right? So the inappropriately over the top sell of his own technologies seems par for the course so far, but that’s just the beginning.

For Thiel and the Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt, the Antichrist’s evil is pretty much synonymous with any attempt to unify the world.

Yeah… Turns out he’s a big fan of Carl Schmitt, the Nazi sympathizer, and Thiel preaches many of the exact same arguments Carl Schmitt made when defending Nazi’s and Hitler, but conveniently doesn’t mention Nazi’s or Hitler directly.

Thiel is also single handedly responsible for JD Vance’s rise in political power, and seemingly much of JD’s racist extremist views as well.

It’s a long article, but it’s worth reading. Thiel is an incredibly powerful, and incredibly dangerous individual.