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