he means he's a cult leader and the dumb gibberish he makes up is to convince his followers that they have some secret knowledge that gives them advantage above others

Rome fell in 476. The seat of empire moved to Constantinople. When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453, Moscow claimed to be third great empire. Around 1510, Philotheus of Pskov warned Grand Prince Vasily III: if the Third Rome fails, there won't be a "fourth" instead there will be an antichrist.

Thiel is referencing this but saying that the US is Rome and if it falls (i.e. too many socialist policies are enacted and there is too much democracy such that Thiel and other billionaires don't have enough power) there will be an antichrist.

In Thiel's view the antichrist will also be a democratic socialist and the only way to avoid this awful outcome is to give billionaires more money and power.

Mean he's a mark ass bitch.

He thinks that a single global technological authoritarian system will grow that he considers the antichrist. He considers the alternative to be some cataclysmic war that will wipe out humanity. He says he wants “a narrow path through them.”

What he wants is a future of neofuedalist technocratic states because he believes that somehow if you have a few fascist kingdoms run by billionaire dictators, rather than a single one, that’s the optimal state.

In practice it means that he wants the fall of global civilization, and he wants those multiple states run by billionaires simply because he’s not wealthy or powerful to control every other billionaire who also in his mind would have their own state, but he doesn’t want them controlling his slave-kingdom.

He thinks that by carefully destroying anything democratic and rebuilding it with a combation of fascist dictatorship, something better will survive.

So, he’s Caesar from fallout new Vegas, who wants the same thing, has an intelligence stat of 4, and is dumber than a mole rat.

I’m torn between the actual answer and a shitpost one

yo mama

Hall was, at best, an idealist. Thiel is a greedy fn looting fascist with bunkers worldwide.

He’s a fucking idiot who cares what he means