In Part 2, we finally get to the Boss Level in our discussion of the increasingly technocratic impulses of Palantir Technologies: the ultimate evil CEO with a god complex, cofounder/Chairman Peter Thiel.

Palantir is the AI/tech company doing the most to help the Trump regime expand the surveillance state by mining Americans’ private data. But should we assume worst intentions? Maybe Thiel is just quirky and misunderstood…

Join us for a discussion of how the PayPal Mafia don got his start, why he’s seen as an enemy of the free press, and how his “techno-libertarian” politics are informed by his alleged Christianity: namely, his ironic concern that in an effort to avoid Armageddon, the masses will run into the arms of the Antichrist in the form of ‘a totalitarian one-world government,’ ‘Chinese communist AI […] the big eye of Sauron that will be watching you at all times and all places.’ (Don’t worry, y’all. He’s here to save us from that fate by…helping the U.S. government surveil us even better. Oh, and he doesn’t believe in democracy. But just TRUST HIM.)

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