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I've been getting Douthat confused with Perot, so I really don't know much about him. But his behavior didn't make a good impression on me and I'm curious as to what the significance behind his residency with the Times is.

This also my first time actually reading/listening to Peter Thiel. Except for the one time I read the first few pages of Zero to One (before I knew who he was) and realized that we have divergent beliefs on the nature of life.

To Douthat's credit, he did us a service by raising the contradiction behind Thiel's arguments—that his business interests belie his existential concerns in a way that suggest that what he's doing here is outlining a self-fulfilling "prophecy" that puts him alongside the Antichrist figure both men evoked.

All of this is masked by the banal historical, cultural, Biblical, and industry references that Douthat willfully leads him toward making.

Interestingly enough, to Thiel's credit, the whole "trans-" thing was interesting.