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This line is entirely Straussian:

>There is a way to think that the antichrist represents the end of philosophy – culmination, termination. He is the individual who gets rid of all individuals; the philosopher who ends all philosophers; the Caesar who ends all rulers; the person who understands all secrets. How is this possible in late modernity, where we don’t believe a philosopher-king, tyrant or ruler can come to power?

See pic related, from On Tyranny, pgs. 211-212

Thiel is directly inverting Strauss's insight that scientific-technological process is the modern historical force that has made totalitarian world domination possible, thanks to F. Bacon's quest to conquer/dominate nature, which inevitably was applied to society and human nature. Thats what the totalitarian regimes of the last century tried to do, but they were limited by the status of scientific, technological progress, along with the fact that Nazi germany got smashed in a total war first. Things are completely different today obviously, and that Thiel is inverting this despite being a scholar of Strauss entails he knows exactly what he is doing, and that his smearing of his rivals (Greta, Eliezer) as in league with the antichrist for resisting climate change/unregulated AI development is such a contradiction of Straussian nature (see Strauss's work on esoteric writing) that points to what Thiel is obviously doing: he knows technological advance is the true harbinger of world domination, and wants to come out on top of it. He is being a literal sophist (making the weaker argument the stronger one) in his own interest while confusing people who don't know the fine details of the branches of philosophy he is speaking from.