I'm convinced him doing the talk on the Antichrist was to misdirect search results in the same way Beyonce made a song called "Bodyguard" that overshadowed a controversy about an affair with her bodyguard
Yeah, there's always a twinkle of conspiracism that lights up inside me when I see something like that, and I do try to think rationally about it, but I end up coming to the conclusion... that it may not actually be that unlikely!
Naming things is easy: Why not hold a talk about the Antichrist when people have been calling you one? Why not name a single song (or even write one from scratch) to cover up some controversy. Or, of course, why not name a movie "Frozen" when there are rumors about what happened to your founders body.
I feel like the PR benefit, even if maybe intangible or purely hypothetical, is so easy to justify given the low amount of effort involved in it.
Though I do think it's rather gauche to hold a public talk about the Antichrist in Thiels situation, I think that doesn't really dispell the rumors, it just brings him and the topic closer together? No? Maybe he's just trying to tell us something. :)
Evil is so hard to quantify, but I do believe him a sociopath, who's also comically bad at hiding it, in comparison to a lot of other C-Suite people.
I do not really think Peter Thiel fits the "Antichrist" description though, I think the biblical figure is supposed to be quite charismatic and a leader that people love, Thiel's just... not good enough at that...
But who thinks Trump or Putin or Xi or Modi or Netanyahu care about what Peter Thiel's philosophy is? These kind of people don't need a Peter Thiel running around telling them about Power. They know how to take it and and they know how to keep it. Hardly matters what Thiel thinks about it.
At those levels of power, everyone knows each other. Any two pair is an ally or an adversary. There are no strangers like among us plebs. They may or may not be well educated, but they certainly know how to handle power very well. They notice each other well before either starts encroaching into the other's sphere of influence and they start preparing accordingly. At the minimum, their advisors will keep a watch.
In any case, reasonably educated people all over the world are aware of how much these wannabe techno-dictators can interfere in their domestic politics. All those countries have populations large enough to notice their philosophies and flag them to the highest level.
Naming things is easy: Why not hold a talk about the Antichrist when people have been calling you one? Why not name a single song (or even write one from scratch) to cover up some controversy. Or, of course, why not name a movie "Frozen" when there are rumors about what happened to your founders body.
I feel like the PR benefit, even if maybe intangible or purely hypothetical, is so easy to justify given the low amount of effort involved in it.
Though I do think it's rather gauche to hold a public talk about the Antichrist in Thiels situation, I think that doesn't really dispell the rumors, it just brings him and the topic closer together? No? Maybe he's just trying to tell us something. :)
I do not really think Peter Thiel fits the "Antichrist" description though, I think the biblical figure is supposed to be quite charismatic and a leader that people love, Thiel's just... not good enough at that...
...maybe just for some tech bros?
I would offer to qualify:
Evil
In any case, reasonably educated people all over the world are aware of how much these wannabe techno-dictators can interfere in their domestic politics. All those countries have populations large enough to notice their philosophies and flag them to the highest level.