Peter Thiel: The State Contains Violence (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2022)

The future of technology and society; Christianity and modern ideologies; political engagement and violence; apocalyptic thinking.

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Outline:

(01:08) Girard, Scapegoating

(04:00) Mimetic copies: Hitler and Stalin, Nazism and Communism, Fascism

(05:30) Wokeism, Christianity, and Academia

(10:40) Wokeism in cities, response to real estate costs. Structural wokeism

(14:27) Winning and losing postures towards wokeism

(17:10) Wokeism is Christianity without the forgiveness

(18:30) Acknowledging sin even when it enables critics

(21:55) Holocaust as the ultimate test of forgiveness, destroying the concept of forgiveness

(25:52) Ignorance and forgiveness

(27:55) Gospels as deconstruction of philosophy

(32:05) Getting tangled in politics. Government and violence

(33:55) Can leaders behave like Christians?

(35:37) The katechon and accelerationism. Preterism and futurism.

(39:10) The Antichrist as a false katechon

(41:14) The Precautionary Principle: technological Armageddon

(45:15) Enabling Fascism to fight Communism

(46:12) Reagan coalition

(49:30) Christianity and mimetic entan

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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_nxwTwKrg