Updated and revised: July 22, August 1, August 5, 2025

Media reference: podcast episode: Jay’s Analysis – July 15, 2025: Jay Dyer interview with Courtenay Turner – “Antichrist & The Beast System? Game B & the Dark Enlightenment!”

Other Related Media:
The Courtenay Turner Podcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD5aV3KaSZA
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/antichrist-the-beast-system-game-b-the-dark/id959495150?i=1000717448358

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Peter Thiel

According to Wikipedia’s article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel:

Peter Andreas Thiel (… born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal], Palantir Technologies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies], and Founders Fund [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund] [note: “Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)”], he was the first outside investor in Facebook [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook]. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Thiel’s estimated net worth stood at US$20.8 billion …

Skipping ahead in the article:

Thiel is a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group], a private, annual gathering of intellectual figures, political leaders, and business executives.

… After graduating from Stanford, Thiel began his career as a clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, worked as a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_%26_Cromwell], a speechwriter for former U.S. secretary of education William Bennett, and a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Suisse]. He founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996 and co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Luke Nosek in 1998. He was the chief executive officer of PayPal until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

Following PayPal, Thiel founded Clarium Capital [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital], a global macro hedge fund [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund] …. In 2003, he launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, and has been its chairman since its inception. In 2005, Thiel launched Founders Fund with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Thiel became Facebook‘s first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake in the company for $500,000 in August 2004. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, and stepped down from the board of directors in 2022. He co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010, co-founded Mithril Capital, was investment committee chair, in 2012, and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.

… Thiel has made substantial donations to American right-wing figures and causes. He was controversially granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011 …

Through the Thiel Foundation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Foundation], Thiel governs the grant-making bodies Breakout Labs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_Labs] and Thiel Fellowship [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship]. …

Note for possible research: an earlier edition of this article (as of July 22, 2025) claimed that these grant-making bodies “fund non-profit research into artificial intelligence, life extension, and seasteading.”

Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, then part of West Germany, on 11 October 1967… The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old …

Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia) in the time of apartheid. Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students’ hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism. The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.

Thiel played Dungeons & Dragons and was an avid reader of science fiction, with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein among his favorite authors. He is a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien’s works, stating as an adult that he had read The Lord of the Rings over ten times. Thiel has founded six firms (Palantir Technologies, Valar Ventures [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Ventures], Mithril Capital, Lembas LLC, Rivendell LLC and Arda Capital) with names originating from Tolkien.

… At San Mateo High School, he read Ayn Rand and admired the optimism and anti-communism of then-President Ronald Reagan. …

Thiel studied philosophy at Stanford University. The replacement of a “Western Culture” program at Stanford with a “Culture, Ideas and Values” course that addressed diversity and multiculturalism prompted Thiel to co-found The Stanford Review [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Review], a conservative and libertarian newspaper, in 1987. The paper received funding from Irving Kristol [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol]. Thiel was The Stanford Review‘s first editor-in-chief until he graduated in 1989. Thiel has maintained his relationship with the paper, consulting with staff, donating to the newspaper, and placing graduating students in internships or jobs within his network.

Thiel enrolled in Stanford Law School and earned his juris doctor degree in 1992. While at Stanford, Thiel met René Girard [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard], whose mimetic theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory] influenced him. In Girard’s honour, he has established the Imitatio project (part of the philanthropic Thiel Foundation), which aims to “supports research, education, and publications building on Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. …

Note about the growth of PayPal: “PayPal then continued to grow through mergers in 2000 with Elon Musk’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk] online financial services company X.com [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank)] …”

Note: “In Silicon Valley circles, Thiel is colloquially referred to as the “Don of the PayPal Mafia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia]”.

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia):

The PayPal Mafia is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley, such as LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk], Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.

According to Wikipedia, regarding his company Clarium Capital Management:

Thiel stated that “the big, macroeconomic idea that we had at Clarium—the idée fixe—was the peak-oil theory, which was basically that the world was running out of oil, and that there were no easy alternatives.”

In May 2003, Thiel incorporated Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company named after the Tolkien artifact. He continues as its chairman, as of 2022. Thiel stated that the idea for the company was based on the realization that “the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism”. He also stated that, after the September 11 attacks, the debate in the United States was “will we have more security with less privacy or less security with more privacy?”. He envisioned Palantir as providing data mining services to government intelligence agencies that were maximally unintrusive and traceable.

Palantir’s first backer was the Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel]. …

According to Geoff Shullenberger (managing director of Compact) and Moira Weigel (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard), Peter Thiel and Alex Karp built Palantir on the basis of their understanding of Leo Strauss [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss] and the Frankfurt School [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School].

Further Reading:

I can relate to some of Thiel’s history because personally when I was young, I liked Reagan also. Later on, I was also a neocon fan and constantly read CIA agent [see The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders] Buckley‘s National Review. Briefly I liked Bush Jr., even post-9/11 until the US government started torturing people and treating the alleged enemy in a totalitarian manner. I was a libertarian believer at that point and had a long infatuation with libertarianism which has many appealing aspects (that’s too big a topic).

Both political schools of thought mentioned above–Leo Strauss and the Frankfurt School– are relevant to our understanding of the big Agenda.

In my view, when discussing a surveillance system (totalitarianism), the references to “conservative” (actually neo-conservative) and “libertarian” and “liberal” become nearly meaningless at this point, these terms just being labels for artificially weakening public resistance–dividing public opinion–in a sense putting half the truth (and lies) on the “right” and half the truth (and lies) on the “left.”

Wikipedia cites the following two articles in which these philosophical associations (Leo Strauss on the one hand, and the Frankfurt School on the other) are made with Palantir:

https://outsidertheory.com/the-intellectual-origins-of-surveillance-tech/

https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/

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To be continued: Part 2