I Have No Idea What Peter Thiel Is Trying to Say and It’s Making Me Really Uncomfortable

Peter Thiel, longtime Trump supporter and billionaire master of the universe, published an article in the Financial Times this perfectly replicates the experience of being cornered by sweaty coke at a house party in Austin, Texas.

“A time for truth and reconciliation” is the ominous title of the article. The reference to post-apartheid South African politics is the most consistent line in the article. The plot immediately takes us into drug-rant territory: “Trump’s return to the White House heralds an ‘apocalypse’ of the secrets of the ancient regime.”

According to Thiel, Trump’s upcoming presidency is the beginning of a new era. Thiel uses ancient, excuse me, “ancien”, spellings of many words. Words like “apocalypse” which he said would lead to a great revelation of many truths. Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? What is the real story behind the assassination of John Kennedy? Was COVID-19 a US biological weapon? Did Brazil ban X at the direction of the Biden administration?

According to Thiel, Trump has the opportunity to reveal all these truths and many more. This essay criticizes a word coined by Thiel’s “friend and colleague” Eric Weinstein, which they call the “Distributed Idea Suppression Complex” (DISC) – the media, bureaucracy, universities and government-funded NGOs that have traditionally restricted public dialogue. “In short, the elite.

There are many problems here. The most important thing is that Thiel is, by any measure, elite. He is a member of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex, which he appears to oppose. He is one of those people who continues Piers Morgan will perform speaks out against slain executives and writes articles in the Financial Times.

Thiel’s fortune exceeds $10 billion. He made a significant contribution of time and money to the political career of J. D. Vance, a man who is now within touching distance of the presidency. Thiel’s article reads like a populist rant fueled by ketamine and amphetamine. It’s an appeal to the masses, complete with literary references, that will fly over the heads of most college graduates.

This is the man who funded Facebook and PayPal and now backs a mass surveillance and artificial intelligence company named after the cursed object from The Lord of the Rings. He has access to more revealing and apocalyptic truths than the average person, but he complains about more. Apparently, on our behalf.

The published article is puzzling. “In hindsight, the Internet had already begun our liberation from DISC prison following the death of financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2019,” he writes. Who was president in 2019 when Epstein died? His vaunted Trump. Who’s in Epstein’s flight logs? Trump. Who has been photographed repeatedly with Epistein? Trump.

“The future requires fresh and unusual ideas,” Thiel insists. “New ideas could rescue an old regime that has barely acknowledged, let alone answered, our deepest questions—the causes of the 50-year slowdown in U.S. scientific and technological progress, the racket of rising real estate prices, and the explosive rise in real estate. public debt.”

Let me help the billionaire. Scientific and technological progress in the United States has skyrocketed over the past five decades, from the perspective of anyone other than the weirdoes hovering over spreadsheets. Real estate prices are rising because we won’t build new housing and venture capital vultures like Thiel are hunkering down with the few resources available. The national debt has skyrocketed because presidents like Trump don’t pay attention and spend money like it’s going out of style.

“Our ancient regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end,” Thiel says. It’s incredible that Thale doesn’t realize he’s part of the “old regime” and that he’s one of the elite dancing at the party.

“There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-Internet past,” he says. And he’s right. But if his vaunted populist Internet gains anything like control, they won’t view Thiel as a hero or a prophet. He will be just another head of the guillotine, an elite alien who wrote about the apocalypse and Decameron while California was burning.