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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/54149315
Peter Thiel’s visit to the Institute of France, a learned society in the heart of Paris, was kept secret until the very last moment. There, behind closed doors, he was due to speak at a meeting of members of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, a working group intended to discuss “the future of democracy.” The group, chaired by former minister Hervé Gaymard, has previously interviewed 25 figures, all French, mainly legal scholars, political scientists and historians.
Even Xavier Darcos, chancellor of the Institute of France, who oversees all five of its academies, was only informed of Thiel’s invitation at the last minute. The invitation has caused a stir within the institution, not only because Thiel, the American billionaire who co-founded the online payment system PayPal and Palantir Technologies, a data analytics giant that works for many governments, is one of the biggest investors in the American tech sector. Rather, it is Thiel’s political ideas, which openly contest democracy, that make his presence at the academy event decidedly provocative.
According to an outline of his speech sent to the academy, of which Le Monde obtained a copy in French, Thiel intended to introduce himself as “a moderate Orthodox Christian and a humble classical liberal, with one seemingly minor deviation from classical liberal orthodoxy: I worry about the Antichrist.”
Through Thiel, however, the academy is about to encounter a far more radical worldview. The Antichrist, a figure he has given sometimes-cryptic talks on, drawing from both the Book of Daniel in the Bible and the writings of 16th-century English philosopher Francis Bacon, does not, according to him, refer to the rise of artificial intelligence or the proliferation of imperialist leaders. Thiel claims that today’s Antichrist is anyone who expresses alarm about climate change, stokes fears of nuclear war or seeks to regulate the use of screens and social media platforms, all in order to promote the emergence of a “world government” – something libertarians, who are hostile to all forms of state regulation, dread above all.
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I hope he gets domed
In French, he’s a “putain.”
I speak some french and would like to add that specifically, he’s a putain de merde.
France was home to many great philosophers. I’d expect the French to tar and feather this Imbecile for all his useless pseudo religious word salad.
This man should look in the mirror…
That’s what they’re best at avoiding. Even more remarkable is their ability to look in the mirror and see only the best in themselves.
Anyone who introduces himself using words like moderate and humble is telling his audience how to think, that they should not think for themselves, just accept what he says as the truth.
In Victorian England, attending public lectures of quack scientists was a popular pastime.
But it doesn’t seem that he was invited to France to be laughed at.
It’s just strange that these guys have all this money and still have a need to LARP pseudoacademic bullshit. It’s similar to putin’s pseudohistorical views too. Meanwhile, real academics can’t find a stable job, because these dipshits keep lobbying funding away from academic institutions.
The billionaires class really did fuck the the planet and tell us it was our fault, hey.
Cunts like Thiel, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg really need to be sent back to their maker for recalibration. And spread their wealth out once theyre gone.
once you know the part of the body that does the thinking is distant from the rest of the body.
Hey France you still have those guillotines around? Can you do the world a favor?
The hero we need right now…
This is fucking awesome
Unbelievable that this nutjob and his coked out partner have managed to obtain lucrative government contracts across the West
Funny how mandatory drug tests don’t include the C-suite.
I mean if a presidential candidate pitched drug testing CEOs contracted to the defense industey I’d vote for them because it would mean either A) these fucks would have to do this shit sober, B) they get fired, or C) drugs would be legalized.
Though its very likely most of them have prescriptions or whatever as well which is just another thing single payer health insurance would solve.
He’s doing an autobiographical lecture…?
hes talking about the “end times” hes bringing.
He’s trying to create a nee christianity where the rich are seen as holy. Thats all this is.
They realise that being rich when it all collapses won’t save them. They need to be reversed so people don’t eat them.
It won’t work.
Of course it wont. It’s the dumbest plan I’ve ever seen to avoid murder from revolution. It makes “let them eat cake” seem smart.
Tbf that’s the same as medieval Christianity kinda, except the holiness begot the richness, not the reverse.
OK. Let’s celebrate the eucharist by consuming their flesh and blood, then.
I got permabanned from reddit for suggesting we should eat the rich like this.
This is why lemmy will always be superior.
I mean to be fair that’s what all the billionaires are doing:
Musks wants a white nazi jesus who forces women to carry children at gunpoint, break up striking workers and lower taxes while giving musk subsidies.
Theil thinks the antichrist should be anyone opposed to his investment portfolio.
And the Mercers think Jesus was warning us about the dangers of caring for our neighbors.
Trump of course thinks Epstein is jesus and will return to earth soon to rapture all the pedophiles to pedophile heaven.
But they’ve had that since Reagan. Now they just seem to be more foolish about it.
Yeah, IDK. Our rich are all kids that grew up within the oligarchy. They didn’t have to try as hard. They’re all drooling fucking morons that think they’re geniuses because everything always goes their way because they’ve always had money.
Ah yes, the „likely Greta Thunberg“ or some other people I don’t like antichrist.
Peter Thiel will talk about himself?
What is wrong with this guy’s brain? Did he have brain worms too?
“a moderate Orthodox Christian and a humble classical liberal, with one seemingly minor deviation from classical liberal orthodoxy: I worry about the Antichrist.”
It’s disturbing that he considers himself “moderate”
And this is the fucking idiot who thinks he’s smart enough to run the world.
This is barely above pretending you’re an expert on deep sea submersibles.
I can’t quite get a handle on where he’s coming from. Other than greed of course it’s probably mostly the greed I’m sure. But other than that is he a zizian? I mean there’s definitely some of that rationalist community vibes to him, or AI rationalists or whatever they’re calling themselves now. But there’s also a heavy Christianity thread that doesn’t really seem to appear in that community. Is he just combining a bunch of different garbage to try and bring them all behind him? Probably I guess. It’s just a bizarre path he’s taken in his lunacy.
