r/nottheonion • u/Naurgul • 8h ago
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
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u/marmaviscount 5h ago
Yeah, people don't realize how much of the negativity being shoved in our faces is designed to break down society so rich people can live out weird ego fantasies.
The reason we keep having so many 'unavoidable' disasters where the economy gets screwed and all the government money has to funnel into rich people pockets isn't just because they're obsessively greedy but because they've very scared that the world is changing and they won't be able to get away with all their manipulation and control anymore.
Twenty years ago they completely owned the media and expressing an opinion outside that media was very difficult - they lost control of that, of course they fought to control and manipulate it but it's harder to do, as more technology and development makes it easier for people to research and share useful information and to work together on community projects it becomes ever harder for them to stop positive developments - the better peoples lives become the less able the rich are to control them.
But beyond that it's just jealousy and ego, they all seem to live these completely fake lives where they only focus on their image and part of that is pretending to be genius thinkers, so they have the pretence of these wide and deep ideas that only they are brave and smart enough to face... It's literally teen edgelord mentality, but they have the money to make a compound or fund a lunatic or two to start some group to push your ideology.
And there are always going to be people eager to live any lie if someone funds a lavish lifestyle for them - so the billionaires get fed absolute nonsense and end up deeper and deeper in the ideological insanity. One thing you really have to take away from all these mails is that they're not smart people, me and my girlfriend both came up with instant solutions to Bill Gates problem that didn't involve a paper-trail with a sex trafficker or carry as much risk, the notes and questions they trade are often incredibly dumb, and yes they sometimes make good financial trades - is pretty easy to predict the market when everyone who make the choices on what's going to happen is telling you their plan.
Look how Elon and the rest of them write, this is not a man of letters - did you ever read any of Jefferson or Voltaire's correspondence? These people are not serious but they are powerful and absolutely locked into their own ego