Father Paolo Benanti

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350 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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On with Kara Swisher · The Vatican Takes On AI · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

It's a two-way discussion.

Well, you know, I think that he is, like everyone else, has his own ideas and blueprint, an ideological blueprint.

My sensibility tells me that he's not believing in democracy, he's not believing in society, and he's believing that it's time for a society made by individuals.

But this is good if something of the society is remained.

So you are looking to trench your own space and one country's passing.

But if all the global society collapses, well, you will have no security.

Try to think that.

Every time in the morning I wake up and I would like to wash my teeth, I don't go and make any analysis on the water that has come out from the pipe because I'm believing that the water company, other human beings, other members of my species make what is enough to bring me the best water that they can.

Welcome to the social contract.

So in a really wild situation in which there is not more any social contract and you are an individual in a series with a series of individual, this is simple something that cannot work.

And this is where the ideology has to face with reality.

And so in my perspective, the problem with Peter Thiel is this, is pushing on an idea that is good if you have to capture some values from a still remaining society.

If it will produce the collapsing of society, it will be the law of the jungle.

Well, you know, I don't want to be involved with the United States politics.

I'm a foreign citizen.

I'm a poor Franciscan.

Let me talk about theology.

That is easier.

And probably what I see as an Italian with the Italian politics, that what you express in public sometimes has an end that is a political end and is not really connected to the word that you are expressing.

So my feeling as someone that belonged to a country with a really complex politics and that probably we have to divide the content of the world by the political ends of the man that was pushing this.

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