{"id":20407,"date":"2025-10-10T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/peter-thiels-off-the-record-antichrist-lectures-reveal-more-about-him-than-armageddon\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:37:32","slug":"peter-thiels-off-the-record-antichrist-lectures-reveal-more-about-him-than-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/peter-thiels-off-the-record-antichrist-lectures-reveal-more-about-him-than-armageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel\u2019s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/10\/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist\">Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/peter-thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a> famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/jan\/04\/the-innovators-peter-thiel\">isn\u2019t into academia<\/a>. And yet, in four recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/10\/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist\">off-the-record lectures<\/a> on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made a good case for credentialing.<\/p>\n<p>In these meandering talks, Thiel is clearly aiming for the kind of syncretic thinking he so relished in the books and lectures of the philosopher and professor Ren\u00e9 Girard, whom he knew at Stanford University and whose work he has long admired. Unfortunately, more often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2025\/oct\/10\/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f6b73239d2dfde6cee8a23f1baf14a6422ae48cc\/414_0_3258_2606\/master\/3258.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4598924f97a42b953d8ae4f18b2876a6\" title=\"Peter Thiel\u2019s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon\" \/>Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher<br \/>\nInside tech billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist<br \/>\nPeter Thiel famously isn\u2019t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made a good case for credentialing.<br \/>\nIn these meandering talks, Thiel is clearly aiming for the kind of syncretic thinking he so relished in the books and lectures of the philosopher and professor Ren\u00e9 Girard, whom he knew at Stanford University and whose work he has long admired. Unfortunately, more often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist Peter Thiel famously isn\u2019t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/peter-thiels-off-the-record-antichrist-lectures-reveal-more-about-him-than-armageddon\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Thiel\u2019s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}