Don’t share your view. The western hemisphere for the most part has lost the meaning of Christianity due to miriad diversivications that has made it unchristian.
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“Christianity” is defined by the New Covenant of the Bible alone. It was never, nor ever will be, dependent or changed by individualistic “views”, such can only malign. “The Way” was never called “Christian” anyway, which was a Roman label to define seditious insurrectionists of their day. The Way stands upon the deeds of the Testator of the Better Covenant that excludes all things “judeo” (pharisaic).
And just like that, US bound technocrats and their families are finding themself plunging down from high rises. Until recently, the territory only familiar to certain neposlushnyy/disobidient Kremlin elites.
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… about Mr Peter Thiel in the words of Mr. Peter Thiel from 2009
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
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I have read excerpts but never the complete source from which they were drawn.
I wonder when he shifted from thinking of himself as a libertarian to the much more assertive doctrines of Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin (have a rough idea of the timing). And he seems less interested in Seasteading nowadays than in his concept of Prospera and other city-states like it, off the coast of Nicaragua.
Sorry. I do not admire the man. He is definitely very powerful, however, probably more powerful than many realize.
@Scarmoge That 2009 article was an eye opener! Forced myself to read it; mercifully, it’s short.
“I stand against . . . the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual.” So nature is an ideology, and some special individuals’ death can be avoided. Yeah . . . I think we’re in whacko territory.
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Good luck with the alternatives!
“The broader education of the body politic [the “unthinking demos” he mentions?] has become a fool’s errand.” Maybe try abolishing colleges of education and teacher certification, and actually teaching kids stuff besides ideology (hat tip to Dr. Farrell).
@catsmeow23 Is he a follower of Curtis Yarvin – who, if I understand correctly, advocates a return to monarchy?
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… Yep, Thiel is a piece of work. More than likely if he wasn’t wealthy not many people would listen to him.
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I wonder how much of “his wealth” he could use before the cherry marines slap him in the back of the head. He’s a front boss not a boss. I’d bet he’s not allowed to touch a billion
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Yes, he is described as influenced by Yarvin & I’m sure he knows about Nick Land as well.
He is said to have been mentored at Stanford by a man named Robert Hamerton-Kelly, who also went through boarding school education in South Africa. He was exposed to the ideas of a Nazi jurist named Carl Schmitt, the source of some of his more outrageous statements about a “special emergency” justifying police powers being employed by the state. Thiel admired many of Schmitt’s ideas.
He also met a very different man, Wolfgang Palaver, at Stanford who Thiel respects but apparently largely disagrees with. Palaver, also a Girardian, sounds more genuinely Catholic.
Interesting that Thiel, Musk, and Nick Land all spent formative years in South Africa, because Thiel’s dad, I believe, was a mining engineer in a small Afrikaner town that still honored the memory of the Fuhrer decades after he died. Land’s dad worked for Shell Oil in S Africa & of course, Musk’s dad was South African - I would guess Afrikaner by the name.
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And I would agree w Scarmoge - people listen attentively to Thiel because he’s seen as a brilliant entrepreneur, so naturally, he must be brilliant in many other ways. He could speak on how he thinks teapots fly and a certain group of people would follow every word.
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