@valeriorenzi @ilmanifesto @MassimoFaggioli Perhaps Thiel’s Rome moment is best read as the final overextension of the katechontic imagination itself: control theology swollen to parody, false transcendence at the threshold of its own disclosure, the incarnational circuit closing, irresistibly, like a thief in the night.
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Tweet: and end/ For Girard, the only counter is 'Christic'—an eschatological intervention that converts fear, desacralizes the control liturgy, re-aims desire, halts the death march of soul and state, and ends Hobbes' war of all against all. Freedom living in salvation, not canonized dread. Nobody tell him Quote tweet: Nothing can stop Palantir, nothing Belief in history as a self-interested concept, I ask ya. As if the agency immanent to reality itself of the sovereignty, telos and might of the Living God somehow wouldn't have the powers of the air dead center in its sights or, as one #TechTheoBro said to the other, 'Surprise!' No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last. I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners. It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_ realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven." Quote tweet: Saying 'no' to the Machine matters—but the deeper counter-word is the Word made flesh. Resistance isn’t only refusal; it’s Incarnation breaking the spell of the Apparatus—not by refusal alone but by unveiling. More than abstention: it is flesh and blood fidelity to the Kingdom.
Open original document@lukeburgis Correct. Palantir strips Greek reason to algorithmic reflex, converts biblical judgment into predictive prosecution, and scales it as Leviathan wearing the mask of enlightenment. Fear is consecrated as prudence, control as virtue, and the katechon as Cloud-based business model.
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Alt-text: Tweet thread here: Voyages to the End of the World by Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe 1/2 This essay doesn't just describe a theopolitical pattern; it arms a hermeneutic mapping political instincts onto biblical categories—policy dressed as cosmic drama, theology as regulatory cover, ideological commitments with material interests as acts of Christlike resistance. The 'unintelligent' hardly monopolize certainty strapped to starvation of conscience. Consider Thiel & Co.—vaunted brilliance as Lucifer's own venture: light bent to venture-backed paranoia, scapegoating industrialized as statecraft, persecution as product-market fit. "You'd think that, if you educate people, they'd stop scapegoating. Yet all I see is that scapegoating becomes more sophisticated among intellectuals. Without a contemplative mind, education just gives you better reasons for your dualistic rationalizations." end\ Silicon Valley’s transhumanism is the chimera scaled: lionized markets, goatish compassion talk, serpent-tail surveillance—a securitized cult of mortality panic suturing capital, code, and the body into a single stack. Name the monster and the mirage; the spell thins. Tweet thread here: Never try to immanentize the eschaton, and never go full millenarian. 🫣 Don't immanentize the katechon. Name it rightly: counterfeit eschatology—save the self, freeze history, manage the rest. The katechon isn't just theological alibi; it's death-terror buying sovereignty. Those who own the technical/capital infrastructure weaponize it: judgment-deferral as oligarchic soteriology.
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