The Guardian reported that billionaire Peter Thiel has recently hosted a series of four lectures in San Francisco about... well, the Antichrist and Armageddon.
Thiel also did several references to pop culture including One Piece and... Watchmen!
We definitely live in interesting times.
You can read the complete article HERE.
We definitely live in interesting times.
You can read the complete article HERE.
[...] He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:
The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.
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