Are conservatives truly unaware of gay space fascists' truly irredeemable nature? My impression is that a number of them are sore losers willfully supporting them out of spite.
For these conservatives, their causes are irreversibly lost (the youth at large practices neither marriage nor Christianism) and they put entirely the blame on the Left, especially the wokes, willfully ignoring other causes like neoliberal capitalism which they can't bring themselves to hate.
They would rather support and surrender all power to nominally right wing transhumanists who claim to hate the left too. They might royally screw humanity but, why would they care? At least it's not the leftists, and for them humanity is already screwed anyway.
Just want to point out that Jason Blakely is not just some random poster on X but an extremely interesting scholar and social critic, a serious Catholic in the mold of Charles Taylor (with whom he studied). In a different, better, world, Blakely would be far better known and respected among Christians than Thiel and his crew.
He's written some articles in Commonweal magazine that are very good. His critiques of Adrian Vermeule and integralist thought are particularly insightful.
He has a couple of books as well. I've only read essays, so I can't say anything intelligent about those other than that they look good.
Thiel’s public theology toggles between “we’re stagnating” and “we’re on the brink of god-like breakthrough.” That tension is itself a mechanism of control.
Thiel telegraphs this in the Douthat interview when he downplays AI as “less than total transformation” yet insists we still need moon-shot ventures to avert civilizational collapse.
This is interesting in that Thiel’s contrarian intellectual style has revealed its limits at least for now. His philosophical mind has been stagnant since college probably; though he’s not wrong in describing Greta Thunburg as a tyranny behind the veil of goodness to gain power, he, like everyone else vying for power, thinks he is the good guy. It would be more beneficial to the armchair philosopher-billionaire if he’d speak honestly about the darker implications of his technological ventures. Civilization cannot continue without culling its worst inputs, as he well knows; but catastrophically evil things happen to do this unnaturally, and he cannot PR his way into a justification for it. Surely it is better to let the shiny city on the hill be trampled by the hungry billions than murder them to keep it from happening? Isn’t that what’s at the heart of this demonic conversation?
I’m going to start using the term “Theiliel inversion” to describe the ridiculous comical reframing of common sense morality into intellectual justification of dark and insane stuff
When you think about levels of blackmail relative to social norms and the individuals in question, for example Clinton was a well-established pervert who got away with adultery in the Oval Office, so underage girls was the next step - one wonders at just how bad it must be with Theil. Homosexuality is already mainstream, and it’s rather accepted even by mainstream society for a guy like Thiel to parade around a late-teen minor. The only thing that really lines up under these parameters is some sort of baby-orgy-feast. And watching Thiel in interviews, it’s instantly believable that he just got done with a fine meal of roasted baby-thigh
Not sure about Thiel, but have you ever wondered what discovery motivated Joe Biden’s first wife to fill a car with Joe’s children and drive directly into an oncoming tractor-trailer?
Beware the Antichrist Zeitgeist (spirit of this age) subconsciously conditioned nature of Rationality? Truth be Told. Rationality is a historically unfolding myth just like Religiousiity. Because its based on the evolved and still evolving nature of the human nervous system. Which manifests the conscious pretense of being fully conscious because we are raised to believe that we 'know' whatever we Name. The perceptual-pretense of knowing reality that James Joyce called the nightmare of history.
While Jesus, the Christ taught socially normal people in parables because, as he clearly and concisely stated: "they seeing see not, hearing hear not, and neither do they understand." Which is still perfectly true Today. However, the looming likelihood that AI will help us free ourselves from our own prison of consciousness, to paraphrase Albert Einstein. Afterall the AI's Learned Large Language Models are Exactly that. A conditioned form of Intelligence that is not Conscious of its own reality, just like every human being on the planet, at this historical moment, of the earth-turning reality of being-in-time.
As someone who resonates deeply with Girard’s theory about scapegoating and the mimetic cycle, I find Thiel’s citation of him to be initially confusing given the nature of Thiel himself. Upon closer inspection however, it seems much more as if Thiel only cites convenient fragments of Girard to as you say, produce a ‘squid ink’ effect, obfuscating his true nature and intentions. For instance, painting himself as a ‘victim’ in cases where he is challenged is absurd, but is ironically more in keeping with Girard’s conception of the Antichrist, which posits that he will weaponize concern for victims and try to turn it in on itself as a purer charity than that offered by Christianity. Here, however, it seems that his use of the single victim mechanism is too self-centered and confused for him to be the genuine Antichrist, at least as conceived by Girard, though you seem skeptical of that conception to begin with. A well-written article. Thank you.
Thiel is hardly the only interpreter of texts for whom Deconstruction becomes a convenient vehicle for emotivism. Girard, bless him, did everything he could to prevent such a perversion of his thought, and even explicitly condemns it in several places, such as I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. But as he says, only Satan can banish Satan.
Thiel's ventures in military technology are particularly concerning - Anduril, Valar, Durin etc. It will be worth watching how deeply he is able to insinuate himself with the USG and legacy defence industry interests.
Particularly as the empire continues its shift to a war footing.
Are conservatives truly unaware of gay space fascists' truly irredeemable nature? My impression is that a number of them are sore losers willfully supporting them out of spite.
For these conservatives, their causes are irreversibly lost (the youth at large practices neither marriage nor Christianism) and they put entirely the blame on the Left, especially the wokes, willfully ignoring other causes like neoliberal capitalism which they can't bring themselves to hate.
They would rather support and surrender all power to nominally right wing transhumanists who claim to hate the left too. They might royally screw humanity but, why would they care? At least it's not the leftists, and for them humanity is already screwed anyway.
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Bang on.
Just want to point out that Jason Blakely is not just some random poster on X but an extremely interesting scholar and social critic, a serious Catholic in the mold of Charles Taylor (with whom he studied). In a different, better, world, Blakely would be far better known and respected among Christians than Thiel and his crew.
Hi John, would you be able to recommend any of Blakely's work? Thank you.
He's written some articles in Commonweal magazine that are very good. His critiques of Adrian Vermeule and integralist thought are particularly insightful.
He has a couple of books as well. I've only read essays, so I can't say anything intelligent about those other than that they look good.
How has Douthat spent a decade advancing Thiel’s agenda?
Thiel’s public theology toggles between “we’re stagnating” and “we’re on the brink of god-like breakthrough.” That tension is itself a mechanism of control.
Thiel telegraphs this in the Douthat interview when he downplays AI as “less than total transformation” yet insists we still need moon-shot ventures to avert civilizational collapse.
This is interesting in that Thiel’s contrarian intellectual style has revealed its limits at least for now. His philosophical mind has been stagnant since college probably; though he’s not wrong in describing Greta Thunburg as a tyranny behind the veil of goodness to gain power, he, like everyone else vying for power, thinks he is the good guy. It would be more beneficial to the armchair philosopher-billionaire if he’d speak honestly about the darker implications of his technological ventures. Civilization cannot continue without culling its worst inputs, as he well knows; but catastrophically evil things happen to do this unnaturally, and he cannot PR his way into a justification for it. Surely it is better to let the shiny city on the hill be trampled by the hungry billions than murder them to keep it from happening? Isn’t that what’s at the heart of this demonic conversation?
I’m going to start using the term “Theiliel inversion” to describe the ridiculous comical reframing of common sense morality into intellectual justification of dark and insane stuff
When you think about levels of blackmail relative to social norms and the individuals in question, for example Clinton was a well-established pervert who got away with adultery in the Oval Office, so underage girls was the next step - one wonders at just how bad it must be with Theil. Homosexuality is already mainstream, and it’s rather accepted even by mainstream society for a guy like Thiel to parade around a late-teen minor. The only thing that really lines up under these parameters is some sort of baby-orgy-feast. And watching Thiel in interviews, it’s instantly believable that he just got done with a fine meal of roasted baby-thigh
Oh dear god. You need to log off. Incredible unlikely.
Not sure about Thiel, but have you ever wondered what discovery motivated Joe Biden’s first wife to fill a car with Joe’s children and drive directly into an oncoming tractor-trailer?
Some questions have no easy answers.
This is an article all need to read. Thiel is a psychopath
He is a Satanist transhumanism is evil it’s all rather obvious once one jettisons all the phony intellectualism
ketamine is a hell of a drug
https://substack.com/@cryptadamus/note/c-130790803
Beware the Antichrist Zeitgeist (spirit of this age) subconsciously conditioned nature of Rationality? Truth be Told. Rationality is a historically unfolding myth just like Religiousiity. Because its based on the evolved and still evolving nature of the human nervous system. Which manifests the conscious pretense of being fully conscious because we are raised to believe that we 'know' whatever we Name. The perceptual-pretense of knowing reality that James Joyce called the nightmare of history.
While Jesus, the Christ taught socially normal people in parables because, as he clearly and concisely stated: "they seeing see not, hearing hear not, and neither do they understand." Which is still perfectly true Today. However, the looming likelihood that AI will help us free ourselves from our own prison of consciousness, to paraphrase Albert Einstein. Afterall the AI's Learned Large Language Models are Exactly that. A conditioned form of Intelligence that is not Conscious of its own reality, just like every human being on the planet, at this historical moment, of the earth-turning reality of being-in-time.
This article was gayer than Thiel.
As someone who resonates deeply with Girard’s theory about scapegoating and the mimetic cycle, I find Thiel’s citation of him to be initially confusing given the nature of Thiel himself. Upon closer inspection however, it seems much more as if Thiel only cites convenient fragments of Girard to as you say, produce a ‘squid ink’ effect, obfuscating his true nature and intentions. For instance, painting himself as a ‘victim’ in cases where he is challenged is absurd, but is ironically more in keeping with Girard’s conception of the Antichrist, which posits that he will weaponize concern for victims and try to turn it in on itself as a purer charity than that offered by Christianity. Here, however, it seems that his use of the single victim mechanism is too self-centered and confused for him to be the genuine Antichrist, at least as conceived by Girard, though you seem skeptical of that conception to begin with. A well-written article. Thank you.
Thiel is hardly the only interpreter of texts for whom Deconstruction becomes a convenient vehicle for emotivism. Girard, bless him, did everything he could to prevent such a perversion of his thought, and even explicitly condemns it in several places, such as I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. But as he says, only Satan can banish Satan.
Thiel's ventures in military technology are particularly concerning - Anduril, Valar, Durin etc. It will be worth watching how deeply he is able to insinuate himself with the USG and legacy defence industry interests.
Particularly as the empire continues its shift to a war footing.