Or people are just seeing the real person. Before the filter was needed but now that views tangential to his are more mainstream it’s easier for him to let the full nut-job out. Same with the CEO of Salesforce.
Personally, I'm not religious. But 20% of Americans believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. Is it really so crazy for one venture capitalist to believe that the Antichrist is real?
Part of the freedom of religion is accepting that other Americans really do have religious beliefs that differ from your own sometimes, and that's okay. It doesn't mean you need to support the policies that he supports. But we do need to share this country peacefully with people who don't have the same religious beliefs that we do.
The current iteration of Silicon Valley is just sad to see. I remember the sort of techno-libertarianism from the 90ies, and... while I didn't always agree, it seemed at least kind of idealistic. Also unrealistic, but it didn't seem to come from a place of cruelty or a thirst for power. Quite the contrary, they didn't seem very good at getting the government on their side back then.
Now they have money and power and use both in pretty obscene ways, like starving children in Africa to death by yanking the aid that was keeping them alive away.
It almost feels crazy to write that, like... it can't be real or there must be some nuance, but that is exactly what gutting USAID did.
I want my nerdy hacker people back, working on stuff that makes the world better through the use of technology.
Thiel gonna be crazier than Kanye soon. All the money in the world but no real friends to help him see the light. I’d be sad for him if he wasn’t such an ahole.
One day we’ll get past as a civilisation assuming rich people are smart or worth listening to solely because they are rich.
You can’t ignore the Thiel’s of the world (because they won’t let us) but you don’t have to put any credence into every utterance that falls from their mouths either.
In a different age he’d be peeing in bottles and pulling a Hughes, the ultra wealthy divorced from reality schtick isn’t even new.
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said in The Great Gatsby “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
However Peter Thiel was not born rich, which makes it safe for me to say he's just like several of my friends who've lost their minds on psychedelics. I've enjoyed them but the the trick is to know when to stop. As Ram Dass said "When you get the message, hang up the phone."
Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Company Gets FDA Approval To Study Ketamine Therapy
I think one of these days Peter Thiel is gonna just melt away like Senator Robert Kelley in the first X-Men film. He’s just so weird and…jelly looking.
He’s projecting his own guilt about his actions onto another. As the article implies, he is a top candidate for Antichrist if there is such a thing, and on some level he’s trying to avoid that truth.
> PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars in wealth to do things like build ICE’s massive surveillance panopticon, support the rise of the “New Right,” and destroying Gawker Media by secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against it.
So he's like the universe's balance to George Soros. Too funny.
The article is light on details of the substance of these lectures. While I couldn't find the referenced lecture, the following lecture might be similar:
Hoover Institution: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 33.8 ms ] threadPart of the freedom of religion is accepting that other Americans really do have religious beliefs that differ from your own sometimes, and that's okay. It doesn't mean you need to support the policies that he supports. But we do need to share this country peacefully with people who don't have the same religious beliefs that we do.
Now they have money and power and use both in pretty obscene ways, like starving children in Africa to death by yanking the aid that was keeping them alive away.
It almost feels crazy to write that, like... it can't be real or there must be some nuance, but that is exactly what gutting USAID did.
I want my nerdy hacker people back, working on stuff that makes the world better through the use of technology.
You can’t ignore the Thiel’s of the world (because they won’t let us) but you don’t have to put any credence into every utterance that falls from their mouths either.
In a different age he’d be peeing in bottles and pulling a Hughes, the ultra wealthy divorced from reality schtick isn’t even new.
However Peter Thiel was not born rich, which makes it safe for me to say he's just like several of my friends who've lost their minds on psychedelics. I've enjoyed them but the the trick is to know when to stop. As Ram Dass said "When you get the message, hang up the phone."
Peter Thiel-Backed Psychedelics Company Gets FDA Approval To Study Ketamine Therapy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2022/01/12/peter-t...
So he's like the universe's balance to George Soros. Too funny.
Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546478
What's Up with Peter Thiel's Obsession with the Antichrist?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271649
Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513937
Regulating AI Hastens the Antichrist, Says Palantir's Peter Thiel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375170
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390263
Hoover Institution: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHueZNEzig