Peter Thiel: The State Contains Violence (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2022)
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The future of technology and society; Christianity and modern ideologies; political engagement and violence; apocalyptic thinking. --- 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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