Peter Thiel's Christian Capital
Whenever I see these Brooklyn kids fashionably adopting reactionary views, becoming Catholics and reading Rene Girard, I think about Peter Thiel's weird fixation on Girard and its attendant demented version of Christianity.
Peter Thiel is interested in mimetic desire and the scapegoat so he basically ends up thinking you just have to abstract the seducti…
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