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Conversations with Tyler #210 · April 17, 2024 · 72m

Peter Thiel on Political Theology

Peter Thiel returns for a live conversation on political theology — Carl Schmitt's resurgence, why Thiel opposes Calvinism and rationalism, whether the Old Testament leads to wokeness, and how AI disrupts the relationship between wordcels and shape rotators.

Canon

Thiel argues that modern institutions (universities, corporations, government) have systematically trained courage out of the population by punishing risk-taking and rewarding conformity.

Highlights

Thiel argues that technological stagnation is a form of civilizational cowardice
Thiel: we stopped building nuclear plants, supersonic jets, and ambitious infrastructure not because we can't but because we lost the courage to take risks. Technological stagnation is a failure of nerve, not capability.