@lukeburgis What’s wearing thin here is the pose of principled refusal alongside strategic silence about agency. Want credit for resisting Anthropic’s pieties, but none of the liability for sponsoring Thiel in Rome? And what of your claim that IQ and capital certify judgment? They don’t.
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There seems to be a lot going down in Rome this week. At this point, expecting Shia Labeouf to wander into the Antichrist lectures asking for a light. Seems the Rome formation risks a counter-mimetic vanguard—a 'Girardian' circle deploying a sacral warrant for converting the diagnostic instrument into an exemption claim. A more sophisticated, credentialed form of sacrificial violence, fluent in critique and now immune to it. – This article asks whether Peter Thiel should be burned at the stake for giving lectures in Rome. Who do you think is the bigger problem for the Church: one of the smartest tech founders and investors in history who is interested in the bible, or the Franciscan friar who was a close advisor to Pope Francis using this kind of rhetoric? I am still waiting to see a single thing by anyone in the Church condemning it. Translated from Spanish Paolo Benanti is a Franciscan and the Vatican's principal advisor on AI. He writes about Thiel and his obsession with the antichrist. Transhumanism, posthumanism, Christianity, Katehon. Brilliant for the religious and accelerated times we live in. If this is an ecclesial question, address the violence at issue—the Thiel/Palantir complex operationalizing a rival soteriology. Your post deflects downward in scale, substituting register-policing for substance, and treats intelligence and biblical interest as moral credentials.
Open original document@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.
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