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