Peter Thiel: The State Contains Violence (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2022)

The future of technology and society; Christianity and modern ideologies; political engagement and violence; apocalyptic thinking. ---Outline:(01:08) Girard, Scapegoating(04:00) Mimetic copies: Hitler and Stalin, Nazism and Communism, Fascism(05:30) Wokeism, Christianity, and Academia(10:40) Wokeism in cities, response to real estate costs. Structural wokeism(14:27) Winning and losing postures towards wokeism(17:10) Wokeism is Christianity without the forgiveness(18:30) Acknowledging sin even when it enables critics(21:55) Holocaust as the ultimate test of forgiveness, destroying the concept of forgiveness(25:52) Ignorance and forgiveness(27:55) Gospels as deconstruction of philosophy(32:05) Getting tangled in politics. Government and violence(33:55) Can leaders behave like Christians?(35:37) The katechon and accelerationism. Preterism and futurism.(39:10) The Antichrist as a false katechon(41:14) The Precautionary Principle: technological Armageddon(45:15) Enabling Fascism to fight Communism(46:12) Reagan coalition(49:30) Christianity and mimetic entan--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_nxwTwKrg