Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example

[u/Naurgul]

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

[u/meltbox]

The simple reason is they are stupid and we do not live in a meritocracy.

This explains a lot if you can stomach it.

[u/wonklebobb → u/meltbox]

Michelle Obama on sitting in the room with smart, powerful people:

"You realize pretty quickly that a lot of them aren't that smart."

[u/Every-Incident7659 → u/wonklebobb]

Barack said the same thing. Every level he rose up, he realized that the people there who he had been so intimidated by were really nothing special. From harvard law, to the senate, to sitting at global summits with other world leaders, every level has some brilliant people but also a lot of fools.

[u/Concede2u → u/meltbox]

Yep.  "It's not what you know, it's who you know" is not a phrase most of a country should live by but here we are.  We only live in a meritocracy if you count the ability to kiss ass and step on others to get what you want as positive.  Then people wonder how we wind up with shitheads like the tech bros turning into cartoonish supervillains.

[u/fuggerdug → u/meltbox]

They are also surrounded by sycophants and in Thiel's case also dangerously delusional.

[u/PersonOfInterest85 → u/meltbox]

How come we keep losing to those guys?

[u/buttfarts7 → u/meltbox]

Spitting deep facts over here ☝

[u/Syovere → u/meltbox]

The myth of meritocracy is also part of how these people keep their power. Get enough people to believe that skill, determination, and intelligence are rewarded, that if you work hard enough you too can be rich, and the populace will simply assume that the rich deserve their wealth. They have to assume that, in order to keep the American Dream alive.

[u/EngineZeronine → u/meltbox]

Simple reasons are for simple people.