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Peter Thiel, Carl
Schmitt, & Silicon Valley’s
New Religion By Matthew Fox 9/23/2025 |
Yesterday, we meditated on the media takeover by billionaires in America. This is not a new thing entirely. After all, Rupert Murdoch has had a stranglehold on right-wing America for decades, and the results are there for all to see in Fox News, the New York Post, and often the Wall Street Journal. |
And, of course, his empire wrought devastation in British politics as well. Before him, there was Henry Luce, who, though a gentleman in comparison to Murdoch, nevertheless had an outsize impact on American culture, politics, and foreign policy for |
President Reagan meeting with Rupert Murdoch (center), Trump mentor Roy Cohn (standing), and Thomas Bolan (back to camera) in the Oval Office, 1/18/1983. Wikimedia Commons. |
decades through Time Magazine, Life, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, etc. I learned a lot about religion, pseudo-religion, and the power of the media in researching Luce and his empire 55 years ago for my doctoral thesis, later published as Religion USA: Religion and Culture by way of Time Magazine. The billionaire in the White House is busy gilding the White House itself in this new gilded age of billionaires while calling the media an “enemy of the people.” The billionaire class he represents is receiving a four trillion dollar tax cut from the poor and middle classes, thanks also to the supine Congress. In my study on Luce, I analyzed the philosophy he instilled into the culture via TIME magazine, a philosophy that was deeply
republican in the manner of the 1950s. So it is appropriate to ask: What is the philosophy behind the billionaire class that has taken over our public and social media in 2025? It is not at all that of Henry Luce, son of Calvinist missionaries in China, that I can assure you. |
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| Let us consider one big influencer, Peter Thiel, who
contributed over 13 million dollars to Vance’s senate campaign in Ohio, thus buying him his political future. Thiel is currently teaching a four-part seminar in the heart of Silicon |
Valley on
the topic of “The Anti-Christ.” Yes, you are reading that correctly. The workshop is secret and sold out, but Thiel’s basic philosophy and mentors are not all that secret. Like fellow billionaire and presidential influencer Elon Musk, Thiel came of age in South Africa during apartheid times, profited from it, and never criticized
it. Thiel has publicly proposed that the antichrist of our day might well be…Greta Thunberg. He has confessed that a big philosophical influence on him is Carl Schmitt. Who was Carl Schmitt, and what does it mean that he influenced Peter Thiel, mentor and financial daddy to the vice president of the United States? Carl Schmitt was a jurist and political theorist with a doctorate in law who wrote about the deficiencies of Enlightenment political philosophy and liberal political practice in Germany in the 1920s and 30s. |
He defined the “political” as the eternal propensity of human collectivities to identify each other as “enemies,” where mortal combat is a constant possibility and frequent reality. In the last days of the Weimar Republic, Schmitt advised President von Hindenburg to bypass Parliament and rule by presidential decree. (Does this sound familiar?) |
Ph.D. candidate Tadas Vinokur outlines Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt’s “Concept of The Political.” Flicker Theory |
When Hitler outmaneuvered them, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and helped coordinate their seizure of power. “He wholeheartedly endorsed Hitler’s murder of political adversaries and promulgation of anti-Jewish policies.”* Schmitt is Thiel’s mentor, and Thiel is Vance’s. And Thiel is raking
in billions of tax dollars with his Palantir project spying on Americans for Trump’s sake. |
“Peter Thiel Freezes When Asked if He’s Antichrist.” Host Krystal Ball and political journalist Glenn Greenwald discuss the doublespeak of Peter Thiel’s antichrist theories. Breaking Points | Thiel has said he believes democracy is dead. And he is telling us what comes next while preaching about the antichrist and his unique religious worldview. He tells us, “I am religious but not spiritual.” |
This is the billionaire whispering in the ear of America’s president and vice president. What could possibly go amiss? Soon, I am teaming up with journalist Gil Duran to offer a two-part workshop as a counterpoint to Thiel’s version of the antichrist. Here is the event registration page: Counterpoint: A Response to Peter Thiel’s
Antichrist |
Queries for Contemplation What do you think it means to call oneself “religious but not spiritual”? And
to call Greta Thunberg the “antichrist” of our time? How concerning is it that Peter Thiel, thanks to SCOTUS’ Citizens United ruling, has delivered Vance to the American electorate and his Palantir Company to ICE and the Pentagon to spy on the American people? |
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