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Ingratitude in the
Religion Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Pushing By Matthew Fox 12/09/2025 |
We have been meditating on gratitude in recent DMs. The peculiar religion being pushed by certain Silicon Valley billionaires currently in very high places in American politics strikes me as being very lacking in either joy or gratitude. But ever so big in visions of apocalypse and destruction. |
On reading
the four lectures on the antichrist delivered by Peter Thiel behind closed doors in San Francisco two months ago, I did not see any mention of gratitude or joy therein. The same is true in the message and manner of Mr. Musk and his visions, of which one of his dearest seems to be to abandon Earth for Mars, where, |
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apparently, he thinks he will be a happier man. Both these men wield great power in our country today. Thiel is the patron to the vice president of the United States, having put $15 million into his Ohio Senate race that lifted him from obscurity to the Senate. Last summer, he convinced Donald
Trump to make him his vice president. If Trump leaves the presidency due to health issues, whether mental, physical, or both, Vance inherits the position. Thiel, already a prime presidential whisperer for sure, is obsessed by the antichrist archetype (though unwilling to debate me about it). Musk, as we know, is already
responsible for the murder of at least 600,000 people in Africa by denying them USAID, which was literally saving lives by providing AIDS medicines and also food for the most hungry. His fellow billionaire, Bill Gates, put it bluntly: “The richest man in the world is killing the poorest children of the world.” |
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| Such people, quite ignorant of either gratitude or joy, have other things on their minds and in their hearts. They are determined to end democracy and replace it with a body politic designed by and for their own. The current SCOTUS is clearly on their side. |
Materialism does that to people and their souls. No doubt this is one reason Jesus cautioned that the very wealthy will find it harder to enter a kingdom of justice and peace than a camel passing through a needle. Catholic monk Thomas Merton had strong things to say to those whose utopian visions are projected
onto outer space, a la Elon Musk’s. Shortly before the first man landed on the moon, he offered this caution: Even if humans can fly, so what? There are flying ants. Even if man flies all over the universe, he is still nothing but a flying ant until he recovers a human center and a human spirit in the depth of his own being. Furthermore, What can we gain by sailing to the moon [or Mars] if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous. I fear that Thiel, Musk, Trump and other
billionaires pushing for displacing a wounded democracy with a country run by and for billionaires are nothing more than flying ants bringing about a “disastrous” future for humanity and the Earth itself. Just as Merton prophesied. Why? |
Because they are fearful men afraid of the most important voyage of discovery, that which separates us from ourselves. Each of them bring their unattended father wounds to the body politic. And bring about an apocalypse and end of the world for all. Merton is now deceased: he |
Paying honor to the dead: the Dalai Lama visits Merton’s grave. Photo by Jim Forest of a photo on display at the Merton Center,
Bellarmine University. On Flickr. |
died about a year
after he wrote these words. Musk will one day be dead, Peter Thiel also, Donald Trump also. Death is a reminder that one’s life, the greatest gift we are given, has both a beginning and an end. What gifts do we choose to leave behind in that interval? Gifts that endure, gifts that uplift, gifts that offer joy and justice for others, including the most needy? Gifts of appreciation? Otherwise, as Merton tells us, we are nothing but flying ants. Did the universe do its work in
bringing our species forward after 14 billion years of gestation just to bring two-legged flying ants into the world? No matter how much money and holdings one (temporarily) clings to? |
Queries for Contemplation How do you explore “the abyss that separates us from ourselves”? Do you agree
that it is the most important of all voyages and that without it disaster threatens? What if Merton’s advice delivered 55 years ago had been heeded and humanity had put as much investment into exploration into our inner space as it has into that of outer space? |
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