Peter Thiel’s Ideology

Microsoft Copilot helped SCOD learn about the Anti-Christ Thiel‘s Palantir ideology.

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Here’s a concise summary of the core ideas of René Girard and Leo Strauss, two thinkers whose influence looms large over Peter Thiel’s worldview—and by extension, the ideological DNA of Palantir.

📚 René Girard: Mimetic Desire and the Scapegoat Mechanism

Girard’s work spans anthropology, theology, and literary criticism, but his central insight is:

🔁 Mimetic Desire

• Humans imitate each other’s desires—we want what others want.
• This imitation leads to rivalry, envy, and ultimately conflict.

🩸 The Scapegoat Mechanism

• Societies resolve internal conflict by unifying against a scapegoat—an individual or group blamed for the community’s tensions.
• This scapegoating is ritualized in myth, religion, and culture.
• Girard believed Christianity uniquely reveals and subverts this mechanism by identifying with the victim (e.g., Christ as the innocent scapegoat).

⚠️ Implications

• Violence is not external to society—it’s foundational to how societies form and maintain order.
• Apocalyptic violence arises when the scapegoat mechanism breaks down and mimetic rivalries spiral out of control.

More on Girard from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

🏛️ Leo Strauss: Esoteric Writing and the Crisis of Modernity

Strauss was a political philosopher best known for his revival of classical political thought and his critique of modern liberalism.

📜 Esoteric vs. Exoteric Writing

• Ancient philosophers often wrote in layers: a surface message (exoteric) and a hidden, elite message (esoteric).
• This was to protect philosophy from persecution and to guide the wise without alarming the masses.

⚔️ The Tension Between Reason and Revelation

• Strauss believed Western civilization is built on a permanent conflict between Athens (reason) and Jerusalem (faith).
• He rejected modern attempts to reconcile or dissolve this tension through relativism or historicism.

🏛️ Return to the Ancients

• Strauss argued that modernity had lost its way by abandoning the moral clarity and political realism of classical thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.
• He called for a return to ancient wisdom to restore political order and virtue.

More on Strauss from Wikipedia

🧠 Why Thiel Cares About Power

• Girard gives Thiel a theory of conflict, crisis, and scapegoating—perfect for a worldview obsessed with existential risk and civilizational collapse.
• Strauss gives him a framework for elite knowledge, political secrecy, and the moral superiority of ancient (Pagan) wisdom—which aligns with Thiel’s distrust of modern liberalism and his admiration for strong, visionary leadership. This would seem to contradict his partner Karp’s hatred of Paganism, but they are salesmen for their products more, not really philosophers.

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Peter Thiel of Palantir owns “Rain Maker Inc” who was cloud seeding Texas just before the flood. There is plenty of public legal official documents on public record now, there is no doubt weather modification technology has been in practice for decades at various scales. Im sure there is more to the story too, with HARP etc. Yet corporate news still calls it “conspiracy theory”; even after years of occasional reports on the science of cloud seeding and practice of it themselves.*