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Conversations with Tyler · April 17, 2024 · 80m
Peter Thiel on Political Theology (Ep. 210)
Peter Thiel on political theology — why secular politics inevitably takes on religious structures. Thiel argues that modern political movements (progressivism, libertarianism, environmentalism) are secularized religions, with their own eschatologies and heresies.
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Thiel: political identity has become the false self of the secular age. People define themselves through political tribe the way they once defined themselves through religious confession — and with the same intolerance for apostasy.
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Thiel: genuine independent thought is the rarest form of courage because the social costs are immediate and the intellectual rewards are delayed. Most 'independent thinkers' are actually conformists in a different tribe.