[Barrin92]

Long but very good piece, although I was surprised to not see Tolkien mentioned even once, who Thiel has given essentially the same treatment.

Tolkien like Girard was explicitly a Christian writer and if there's one message in his books it was of course: "do not take the ring". Thiel somehow turned this around into "VC fund the forging of the ring and use it against our perceived enemies".

Girard's argument was that the logical endpoint of mimetic violence and technology is apocalypse, and the only solation is love of your enemy. Likewise Tolkien points out that it is the very logic of power that destroys. Yet Thiel somehow took Tolkien's work, slapped his names on weapons and tools of surveillance. It's honestly kind of bizarre the extent to which Thiel openly twists the people he claims to admire.

[lwo32k]

Could it be Peter Thiel doesn't know how to generate love. What does he or anyone similar then do when love is suggested as a solution to complexity?

[xk_id]

They dig through (your) history, in search for examples of corruption or evil.