How Silicon Valley oracle Thiel scripts global doom

In the fog-laden enclaves of San Francisco, far removed from the public scrutiny of boardrooms and legislative hearings, a new gospel is being preached. It is not a sermon on quarterly earnings or algorithmic efficiency. It is related to a theological treatise on the end of days. Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has recently delivered a series of “clandestine” lectures centered on the figure of the Antichrist. These talks, hosted by the Acts 17 Collective, reveal a disturbing and fascinating blend of biblical eschatology and Silicon Valley futurism. By framing technological stagnation as the ultimate evil and casting critics, such as climate activist Greta Thunberg and AI safety advocate Eliezer Yudkowsky, as archetypes of the anti-messiah, Thiel is constructing a techno-political theology that seeks to justify unchecked acceleration as a divine imperative.

As a scholar of intelligence studies and techno-politics, I view these sermons as a sophisticated exercise in intelligence reproduction, the creation of a narrative that reshapes our perception of threat and security. Thiel’s rhetoric risks normalizing the billionaire philosopher as a modern oracle, dictating the terms of global survival while conveniently absolving the tech elite of accountability.

Theology of acceleration

At the heart of Thiel’s lectures lies the concept of the