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  • Thiel claims that today’s Antichrist is anyone who expresses alarm about climate change, stokes fears of nuclear war or seeks to regulate the use of screens and social media platforms, all in order to promote the emergence of a “world government” – something libertarians, who are hostile to all forms of state regulation, dread above all.

    Raised in apartheid-era South Africa, the venture capitalist seems to have clung to the idea that certain categories of people are meant to rule over others. He is an elitist who advocates for an oligarchic system, one in which governance is ensured by a select few, preferably wealthy male entrepreneurs, and who exalts progress, technology and the supremacy of the individual. Monarchy is the best form of government, he argues in his essay Zero to One.

    Why didn’t I think about that, world government is only bad unless Thiel is in charge