Thiel Warns of the Antichrist—And Builds the Cage
“I am an orthodox Christian, humble classical liberal with just one seemingly minor deviation from classical liberal orthodoxy: I am worried about the antichrist.”
— Peter Thiel, qtd. in De Vynck and Itkowitz
Peter Thiel’s leaked lectures about “The Antichrist” are the latest chapter in an ancient story that began in the Garden of Eden. What originated with a serpent presenting God as the villain has become an oligarch casting anyone who questions technological acceleration—the cautious, the careful, the ones who want to slow down—as “legionnaires of the Antichrist.”
Thiel built much of his…
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