"... Peter Thiel acts on two simultaneous levels, revealing the depth of his political heresy: on one hand, he finances the centrifugal forces that erode the nation-state; on the other, he arms the state to establish panoptic control.
"When liberal democracies adopt its instruments, they are not just acquiring software: they are importing an ideology that views transparency as an obstacle and public debate as a luxury that has become unsustainable.
"By accepting Thiel's technology through Palantir's writing of reality, institutions implicitly adopt his diagnosis: society is a mimetic mass incapable of self-governance, and the only alternative to the apocalypse is a technocratic order imposed by an elite of sovereigns.
"In this vision, democracy understood as self-government of equal citizens is already dead — and all that remains, in the darkness of a data center, is the clinical management of its corpse." -- Father Paolo Benanti, Pope Leo XIV's advisor on artificial intelligence, concluding an essay on Palantir founder/ PayPal co-founder with Elon Musk / Epstein associate / and Malignant Fascist billionaire extraordinaire Peter Thiel and the very un-Christian vision he espouses. Thiel is a deranged techbro whose visions of a technocratic elite ruling over the world is struggling to be born under the MF's oligarchic "Epstein class" regime. This is a stimulating and deep dive into German-American Thiel's dark, inhuman Palantir "theology" and its adherents in the largely unaccountable tech world. Thiel's currently in Rome to give secret lectures on the Antichrist (oh, the irony).
You're conflating Peter Theil and Ric Grenell, whose a separate but equal asshole.
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