Recently, I read in the German newspaper a transtlated The Guardian article. It was the transcript of a lecture hold by Peter Thiel. Thiel wanted to keep the content of the lecture a secret.
Here is the article.
www.theguardian.com
I am interested in the ideology of tech billioniares, libertarians, J.D. Vance, Curtis Yarvin alikes. Many of them are inspired by the German Carl Schmitt. The nazis also relied on him heavily.
To make it very short.
The antichrist is a false prophet/false peacemaker. The counterfigure to Christ. Not a monster or demon. He resembles Christ, promises peace, order and salvation.
The Antichrist represents a world that wants order without God, peace without truth, and unity without freedom. He ends the comflicts by elimanting difference.
Peter Thiel uses a one-world government equivalent with the Antichrist. Thiel also talks about who this antichrist actually could be. He speculates it is a figure like Greta Thunberg or strong anti AI people/a person in favor of strong tech regulation.
Then there is the Katechon. Meaning "that which holds backs/restrains". It restrains the Antichrist and thus delays the end of history.
Putin thinks Russia was the Katechon protecting the world from wokeness. And some right-wingers sympathize with this idea. This is why they want Russia as ideological ally of the US.
The answer to the question in the title. It is all bullshit. I don't want to mock believers. But most of the people who spread this narrative don't do this because they believe in it. It is useful for their agenda. It is a narrative the leftwingers are missing. And the right is good at developing narratives.
I find it interesting ideas. But they are dangerous and very bad for humankind. I try to understand them in order to analyze the far-right and what is driving them. It is in some way insane that highly educated people believe in such things. Or they at least claim that. I think if people have a good life it is easy for them to autosuggest that God is on their side.
I despise all of them. But I try to understand their ideology.
Here is the article.
Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
To make it very short.
The antichrist is a false prophet/false peacemaker. The counterfigure to Christ. Not a monster or demon. He resembles Christ, promises peace, order and salvation.
The Antichrist represents a world that wants order without God, peace without truth, and unity without freedom. He ends the comflicts by elimanting difference.
Peter Thiel uses a one-world government equivalent with the Antichrist. Thiel also talks about who this antichrist actually could be. He speculates it is a figure like Greta Thunberg or strong anti AI people/a person in favor of strong tech regulation.
Then there is the Katechon. Meaning "that which holds backs/restrains". It restrains the Antichrist and thus delays the end of history.
Putin thinks Russia was the Katechon protecting the world from wokeness. And some right-wingers sympathize with this idea. This is why they want Russia as ideological ally of the US.
The answer to the question in the title. It is all bullshit. I don't want to mock believers. But most of the people who spread this narrative don't do this because they believe in it. It is useful for their agenda. It is a narrative the leftwingers are missing. And the right is good at developing narratives.
I find it interesting ideas. But they are dangerous and very bad for humankind. I try to understand them in order to analyze the far-right and what is driving them. It is in some way insane that highly educated people believe in such things. Or they at least claim that. I think if people have a good life it is easy for them to autosuggest that God is on their side.
I despise all of them. But I try to understand their ideology.
