Mark Gagnon

Exactly.

See, now you're on board, now you're getting it.

Now, Peter Thiel is basically saying that the antichrist as a system

is by declaring permanent emergency.

So climate, AI, security, nuclear war.

Now this is interpretive synthesis based on his writings and lectures, not literally a direct quotation.

So he hasn't said this outright, but it's based off the same framework, and he has mentioned this guy, Carl Schmitt.

So basically he's saying that you have one side that is making all this fear and basically trying to collectivize people against a fear, and that system is the Antichrist, and that's building off of Girard's work as well as Schmitt's work, being like,

Look, these people are just declaring this emergency.

And when they declare the emergency, they're able to change the life as we know it.

You know what I mean?

If they're like, hey, the climate's getting destroyed.

No one's able to use electricity anymore.

You're not allowed to use water.

You know, like they all of a sudden can change the way that humans in society are operating because of this existential threat.

Right.

Whether this is real or not or justified above me.

Yeah, I think it's like I personally, I'm like, I don't know if I trust who's applying it and how they're applying it, but the philosophical concept feels roughly correct.

I mean, this is more or less what his lectures are talking about.

Now, what's funny is that the Catholic Church has gone against him pretty directly in a few different ways.