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https://lalafrontera.substack.com/p/the-architects-of-chaos?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2n601f No puedo analizar cómo tu la visión de Thiel desde lo antropológico, pero desde la teología, hay un desconocimiento profundo de Dios y una incorrecta interpretación de las sagradas escrituras. Escribí varios artículos analizando justamente la interpretación errónea del Apocalipsis. Te comparto el enlace del primero por si te interesa léelo. Saludos

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Thank you for taking on this topic. I've suspected for awhile that Thiel does not understand Girard or finds him fascinating in a selectively myopic or politically parochial fashion – similar to how Marc Andreesen bizarrely extols Carse's "Finite and Infinite Games" which has no resonance with Andreesen's life choices as far as we know from the outside looking in.

Regarding Girard, I've also read "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning", along with "Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World", and "The Scapegoat", and I don't understand how any of this could be used by any political movement, much less the American (new/alt) Right. Not only is it too academic, but there's nothing here to motivate political action – certainly not collective action! How ironic would that be: to reenact the mythic cycle while citing Girard against this scapegoat called the Antichrist. Could only the Antichrist pull off such an infernal irony? Does Girard ever mention the Antichrist? Looks like he does in Chapter 14 – at the end of ISSFLL. To say the least, upon reading Girard, I am not inspired to found a series of national defense startups that are named after Tolkien artifacts of surveillance and war (e.g. "Palantir" and "Anduril"). What book does Thiel think he is reading?

I might go so far to say that Thiel is diabolically appropriating Girard precisely to undermine the philosopher's deeply Christian wisdom, as the likes of Thiel (and Elon) and many others are clearly in the running for the role of at least a "Vice Antichrist" position in our wacky 21st century eschatology. That all said, I don't disagree with the premise of Thiel's thesis that globalism is at least related to the Antichrist in structure, but the irony of Thiel's arms race with this technocratic feudalism undermines whatever critique he might have of the multinational leviathan: is he not mimicking it through private industry? Lastly, I'd say "The Scapegoat" is probably the most accessible (and perhaps most enjoyable) of those Girard books, and again—nothing about this text demands we rally against the Antichrist, certainly not with "lost seeing stones" or kill drones.

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