Perhaps the main issue or question I had about the Thiel lectures was to what extent the Christian theology is necessary to the argument. It seems to me that you can warn against the threat of global government on the grounds of political philosophy, as Leo Strauss did in his debate with Kojeve published in On Tyranny; and since both Strauss and Kojeve were mentioned by name in the lectures, it doesn't seem arbitrary to compare Thiel's account to the positions debated there. There's a way in which the lectures could be summarized (compressed, unfairly, with loss) as stating that the antichrist is the impossible political solution offered to a crisis that he himself exaggerates in order to scare people into accepting his promise of peace and security-and that the person most likely to do this in our time and in our Rome (America) is a Democratic president. Of course there are plenty of other issues he could not discuss in the relatively short span of four lectures, like whether open source AI is a kind of restrainer against the dual threat of antichrist and armageddon, etc. But again, I would regard the question about whether the Christian angle is indispensable or not as the central puzzle.

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