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The New Fundamentalist
Religion
from Silicon Valley By Matthew Fox 10/21/2025 |
When Gil Duran, with whom I dialogued last week, opposed the movement, he was slandered by
propagandists shouting that he is financed by George Soros, which he is not. |
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But billionaires shout with very large megaphones, being owners of vast media and social media outlets and busy devouring ever more. (A recent rumor suggests Elon Musk wants to buy MSNBC and replace Rachel Maddow with Joe Rogan.) With the recent knifing of PBS and NPR by the MAGA world, it may not be long before
all the media tastes and smells like Fox News. The dumbing down of America will be almost complete. The New Silicon Valley Religion is not your father’s fundamentalism. Jerry Falwell, step aside. This is not a religion of churches or scriptures but, as one of its preachers, Peter Thiel, makes clear, of apocalypse and end of
times and end of democracy. And the rise of the antichrist is understood as anyone who opposes unlimited capitalism, or gives to the poor in Africa, or supports ending fossil fuels, and uniting the world to combat global warming. Thus, Greta Thunberg makes the list and Bill Gates too, for his urging of fellow billionaires
to give to the poor—a “left-wing” or “woke” activity. |
Woke idea? “Christ of the Breadlines” by Fritz Eichenberg for The Catholic Worker. Image uploaded to Flickr by Jim Forest | This religion lies at the crux of the current shutdown of the government—the reason Democrats won’t go along with the gutting of Medicare, Medicaid, and consequent loss of health care for millions of working Americans. Let no one |
interfere with the $4 trillion tax-break billionaires have demanded—and received from MAGA. Such billionaires and aspiring billionaires don’t feel they should have to pay taxes that support the elderly (Social Security), the sick, the poor, or the common good. When one San Francisco venture capitalist, Garry Tan,
went on a tirade on X, calling for the death of city supervisors and naming them, five received death threats in the mail. Tan apologized, but continued his tirades sans the death threats. Duran describes the tech ideology as “corporatist” with startup founders as their heroes or saints. They dismiss a politics that is
“obsessed with wokeness and against tech’s unrepentant pursuit of innovation and profit.” Though boasting a sense of religiosity, God had been dethroned by AGI—a Greater-than-Human Intelligence they are busy making. |
Some call it “the last invention” (or “second coming”?), which would fix all problems facing humanity. Or possibly end all humanity. Does this explain some of Thiel’s preoccupation with the apocalypse? And his somewhat ambiguous relationship to the antichrist? Duran describes these people as having kind of reached a point where they have so much wealth, and so much egomania, and in some cases, so much drug-addled thinking, that they decide they’re going to rule the world and that democracy is an |
AGI as connection to universal consciousness, or new divinity? ChatGPT identifies six perspectives on the tech-human relationship. AI-generated image. |
outdated form of software. He adds, “These people have enough money to be dumb and dangerous for a very long time.” Donald Trump visited one of their “palatial” San Francisco homes during the 2024 campaign and was urged by Peter Thiel to name J.D. Vance his running mate. And it was done. “San Francisco became a hotbed of elite resentment and an unlikely source of cash for the Trump campaign.” Duran
observes that these people “are throwing a lot of gasoline on the fire” of political polarization and moving “everybody’s politics toward the right” while pretending “that they have solutions to the problems” of the world. Elon Musk spoke to Germany’s AfD—“the closest thing the country had had to a Nazi party since
1945”—urging them to move beyond “past guilt.” AfD finished second in the German election, “the best result for a far-right German political party since the Nazis came to power.” Vice President Vance also spoke to them. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you believe democracy is outdated? How do you feel about Silicon Valley billionaires becoming
“the rulers of the world”? And about “AGI”—a Greater-than-Human Intelligence–that they are busy making? Does this sound sort of déjà vu what with Frankenstein, et al? Myself, I prefer a God that made us and the rest of creation to any god that we make. |
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