It's a bunker-building of the mind as well as a brutalist political strategy to survive the destruction they're causing.
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"Concerns about ecological boundaries? Antichrist. Questions about whether technological disruption serves accumulation more than human flourishing? Antichrist. Suggestions that perhaps immortality isn’t achievable or even desirable? Antichrist."
"What if the forces he identifies as Antichristic: calls for “degrowth”, ecological limits, skepticism about technology, concerns about surveillance capitalism— are actually...the restraining forces preventing hoarder capitalism from completing its self-liquidating logic? What if the real Antichrist is the person who compulsively, violently accumulates despite clear evidence of harm, who builds surveillance infrastructure while warning about tyranny..."
THIS too
"He’s mainstreaming scary Bible stories to explain the chaos and destruction he is creating and funding. Every time another person buys into his self-important stream-of-consciousness word vomits, he makes more money and consolidates more power." https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/why-peter-thiel-really-cares-about
Both are true: Thiel is reaching for "antichrist" theology to justify his race toward destruction while also tapping the apocalyptic thinking of others to maintain power. Reality: the bill is coming due for climate change and men like him are desperate to lock down power to escape responsibility.
https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/why-peter-thiel-really-cares-about
@susankayequinn If people have nothing to rationally explain why things happen (Trump’s mission in dismantling trust in science) they resort to extreme religious ideas to explain what they don’t know. Bring the anti-Christ fear into the picture and suddenly you have hungry, huddled masses looking for help in a strong “leader” who will provide and protect them, but only for a price: their work, obedience, lack of compassion for others and willingness to give up their freedom.
@bouriquet I don't disagree that's Trump's aim, but I also don't let people off the hook. They've been resorting to extreme religious ideas to explain things that are FULLY KNOWN. They know evolution exists, the science is established, but it contradicts what they want to believe about their Bible, so they choose ignorance. And then demand a "strong leader" who will pander to that ignorance and force OTHERS to be ignorant as well.
Trump isn't making this happen.
They are making Trump happen.
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It's a bunker-building of the mind as well as a brutalist political strategy to survive the destruction they're causing.
@susankayequinn You know, back when I was little my dad used to rant about how religion was nothing more than a tool that the powerful used to keep the masses down.
He'd grown up in the Southern Baptist Church and left it / the South at 19. I figured he had reasons for thinking that.
Yeah.
Kinda thinking my dad was a little more aware than I knew when I was young.
#capitalism #religion #antifascism #yikes
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@susankayequinn There's also something quite disturbing in how deeply rooted all this is in the deep belief in American Exceptionalism.
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