Decoding The Gurus
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Gurometer: Peter Thiel
🕑 Added 2025-02-11 00:05:33 +0000 UTCScrying through the portents Matt and Chris sit down to consider the apocalyptic insights of tech and finance titan Peter Thiel. We all know that Thiel is an urbane gentleman of great refinement with a collection of revolutionary ideas but does he make the Gurometer sing? Join us to find out and also learn more than you ever wanted to know about the intracies of academic grading systems.
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milkgap
His interpretation is of Revelation isn't actually off base. Most Biblical scholars would agree that Revelation is straight up about Roman oppression and Emperor Nero. So applying this to a modern empire (or NWO?) is pretty dang true to the original.
Paul Bowman
One other consideration for guru characteristics which I'm not sure about, but I think is interesting to think about, is fanaticism. I don't think this overt, at first sight (unlike narcissism, for eg). But it feels to that someone like Gad Saad is just a gobshite (maybe not a great example, as he's a bit of a failure as a guru). Whereas someone like Thiel, for all his lack of charisma, inarticulacy and silly incoherence of much of his half-baked notions, does strike me as having an underlying fanaticism to his personal psychology
