We’ve been covering quite a lot about Peter Thiel’s ‘eccentric’ shenanigans, like his personal obsession with the religious figure of the Antichrist; who according to the Book of Revelation (that’s what Apocalypse means: to reveal what was once hidden) will usher in the Armageddon and the final battle between Good and Evil, before the return of Christ.
Some of our readers might even be thinking that, just like Thiel is obsessed with the Antichrist, we ourselves are getting obsessed with Thiel. To that I would personally submit that there is a very good reason why we keep bringing him to the attention of Daily Grail viewers: Unlike the Second Coming (or even UFO Disclosure, for that matter) A.I. technologies like the ones developed by Palantir, Thiel’s company, are not a matter of faith: AI is already having an impact on our society, and not for the better—just ask the people of Gaza.
If I hold personal delusions, like imagining Greta Thunberg is going to somehow prepare the way for Satan to launch his final attack against God’s divine plan, that’s of little consequence to the world in general (or Greta in particular) because I’m just a regular shmuck with no influence to global-scale affairs. But Peter Thiel does have the influence to affect things, so if he somehow seeks the way to impose his belief system upon all of us in ways that affect international policies, that should worry us a great deal.
There is also the inescapable irony that Thiel, despite his undeniable intelligence, can’t have the sufficient introspection to realize he’s doing a lot of projection with his attempts to raise the alarm against the coming of the Antichrist, when many of the things he’s doing through his companies are exactly what a would-be Antichrist would do! Even a journalist who recently interviewed him posed that very question unto him, and he didn’t know how to answer:
“You’re an investor in AI,” Douthat says. “You’re deeply invested in Palantir, in military technology, in technologies of surveillance and technologies of warfare and so on. And it just seems to me that when you tell me a story about the Antichrist coming to power and using the fear of technological change to impose order on the world, I feel like that Antichrist would maybe be using the tools that you are building… Isn’t that a concern? Wouldn’t that be the irony of history, that the man publicly worrying about the Antichrist accidentally hastens his or her arrival?”
“Look, there are all these different scenarios,” Thiel sputtered, seemingly caught off guard by the question. “I obviously don’t think that that’s what I’m doing.”
All I’m saying, is we shouldn’t let powerful men using old religious texts as guidelines dictate how we shape or reshape our society. Because that hasn’t had a lot of success so far…
