Crypto America's Change of Heart: Peter Thiel at a Historical Turning Point

Dedicated to right-wing American operator Peter Thiel.

On September 4th, at the White House tech conference, a host of Silicon Valley titans sat at the roundtable, but Peter Thiel was absent.

From left to right, Figma's CEO is a Thiel Fellow; Scale AI is a unicorn nurtured by Founders Fund; David Sacks, in addition to being the White House crypto czar, was Peter Thiel's right-hand man during his time at PayPal; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the first representative project of Peter Thiel's legendary Silicon Valley venture capital venture; Palantir is the main contractor for Trump's Golden Dome project; and Peter Thiel is also one of OpenAI's earliest investors.

Distant people, distant places, are all related to Peter Thiel. On the eve of 9/11, Charlie Kirk died in Utah. The world only knew that Vance carried his coffin and that Trump lowered flags to half-staff. What's less known is that it was Charlie Kirk who completely changed Vance's view of Trump, forsaking his Yale Law PhD's future within the establishment and choosing to go all-in on Trump. Incidentally, Vance is also Peter Thiel's most deeply embedded thorn in the side of the MAGA movement and Washington. Behind their backs, the Silicon Valley right is encroaching on the entire Western world. Wall Street can't save the Federal Reserve, and the banking industry can't stop stablecoins. After 15 years of planning by Peter Thiel, right-wing America has emerged, and will shape the next era of crypto, AI, and world order.

The collapse and reconstruction of the Western order

Musk is worried about the white fertility rate, and Peter Thiel hates the morality of slavery.

After World War II, a large number of Germans fled the European continent and settled in Latin America and southern Africa, especially in the city of Swakopunda in Namibia. On April 20, 1989, Hitler's birthday was even publicly celebrated on August 15, a testament to their ideology. Peter Thiel, born in 1967, moved to Namibia at age four and returned to New Rome, California, at age ten. Unlike Musk, who spent his entire childhood in South Africa, Thiel's impression of both Namibia and South Africa was that they were "white" societies. At the time, both South Africa and Namibia were under apartheid and colonial rule, the longest-lasting colonial order since World War II. This is a shared historical memory between Musk and Thiel. The difference lies in Thiel's persistent anti-authoritarianism from childhood. He opposes freedom imposed by others while also desiring to maintain Western authority over the world. This is the core of all the tensions and contradictions. Politics is about distinguishing friend from foe. Carl Schmitt is known as the Nazis' spiritual mentor, and some consider him Peter Thiel's guiding light. However, Peter Thiel recognized the ambiguous nature of the post-World War II political order. The East-West confrontation in the late Cold War was not merely ideological, but also a cultural war. From the hippie movement to the Reagan era of the 1980s, a generation of Americans drifted toward self-destruction. At the latest, before Peter Thiel entered Stanford in 1985, he had read Atlas Shrugged. Unfortunately, Ayn Rand died in 1982, so she didn't see the most glorious moment of libertarianism's sweep across the United States—Reagan's rise to power. Fortunately, in 1987, Peter Thiel founded the Stanford Review, which championed neoconservatism and libertarianism. In response to the university's actions, Thiel replaced the Western Culture course with a "diversity" course. The West Coast's highly effective leftward shift, or the diversity movement, continued its rapid advance even during the Reagan era. However, thanks to the persistent efforts of Reagan's co-believers, Trump and Peter Thiel, we're already seeing signs of succumbing. Peter Thiel's consistent style is that he even called the Stanford Review a right-wing position within the left-wing Stanford community. Peter Thiel has long sponsored and maintained ties with key members, the so-called PayPal Mafia originating from this group. Throughout his school years, the person who had the greatest influence on Peter Thiel was the philosopher René Girard. Girard's most famous theory is that "desire comes from imitating others." Like Ayn Rand, Girard did not agree with the doctrine of original sin in Christian theory. He put human nature into a rational framework that could be objectively discussed, and ultimately justified innovation, especially technological innovation. Peter Thiel once said, "People wanted flying cars, but what they got was 140 characters." The root of his theory lies in Girard. Whether he likes it or not, Girard has in fact become the ideological source of the Silicon Valley right. In 2011, Peter Thiel gave a speech, again accusing Silicon Valley of pseudo-innovation and its lack of focus on truly cutting-edge technology. In the audience at the time, there was a man named Vance. In 2010, Peter Thiel had established the Thiel Fellowship to support ambitious college dropouts, including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Ethereum founder Vitalik. Even more insane was the 2016 presidential election. Amid Silicon Valley's collective obedience to the Democratic Party, Peter Thiel began a contrarian bet on Trump. Remarkably, even after Trump's defeat in 2020, Peter Thiel continued to invest in him, even resigning from the Meta board in 2022. In contrast, Soros represents the Democratic Party's clear frontier, Peter Thiel represents the American right's hidden frontier, and Musk represents the chaotic frontier. Before the 2024 election results were announced, Microsoft rescinded its LGBT policy. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, demanded that the editorial staff not take sides. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, was still wavering between the two sides until September 4th, when he finally realized his mistake and paid tribute. Peter Thiel uses money as ideology, while Soros embodies ideology within politics; different paths lead to the same end. Peter Thiel's ultimate goal isn't to protect his own interests or expand the rights of homosexuals, but to safeguard the survival of his imagined supercommunity—Western civilization. He equates white America with the Western city-state and resists all foreign attacks on the ancient Greek spirit. Earning the entire market's beta. Chaos is a ladder, and cracks are space.

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