At the end of 2025, tycoon Peter Thiel organized a series of top-secret conferences to address an issue that has obsessed him for a long time: the antichrist. Yes, you read it correctly, the antichrist. In the first conference, and it is known because there is nothing more likely to be revealed than the top secret, Thiel himself offered a “basic definition” of what he understands as antichrist. “Some consider him a very evil person. Sometimes it is used more generally as a spiritual description of the forces of evil. What I will focus on is the most common and dramatic interpretation of the antichrist: an evil king, a tyrant or an anti-messiah who appears in the end times,” Thiel said, according to audios from , among others. For the tech investor and billionaire, The antichrist could be someone similar to, yes, the activist Greta Thunberg.
Broadly speaking, this current thought of Peter Thiel is summarized in that he is convinced that evil, embodied in people like Thunberg, is about to devastate the Earth. Wow, what the end of the world is very nearalthough he and his people, such as the CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp, have the solution, an arrangement that a few days ago the company summarized with a sort of 22-point manifesto published on the social network ‘The Technological Republic’.
The first point of the Palantir manifesto also serves as a synopsis of the remaining twenty-one clarifications: “Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. Silicon Valley’s engineering elite have an obligation to participate in the nation’s defense“. Or what is the same, through its technology, the surveillance software it develops, Palantir proposes, in the words of journalist Ekaitz Cancela, “a plan for the reordering of the world order that tries to guarantee peace not because there will be no wars, but because they will crush the enemies.”
Cancela, assures that “the most important thing about the manifesto is that it is a plan to carry out a reordering of the world order and, therefore, of the legitimization strategies that have been imposed during the last centuries.” “With the current crisis of the world order, Palantir is committed to eliminating the soft power that had sustained American liberalism; They believe that this phase of using Silicon Valley as soft power has been exhausted and they say it very clearly: free email has to give rise to something that guarantees national security, the iPhone is not just a mechanism to turn everyone into an artist, but it has to serve to turn everyone into a soldier. “If there is a problem in the world order, what they say is that the only solution is to create software that governs everyone.”
Cancela also offers a good analogy to understand what Palantir represents in modern times. They are, he says, “the new Henry Fords, the JP Morgans of the time”. “Instead of cars or finance, we now talk about a vast authoritarian infrastructure that Peter Thiel is deploying thanks to the systematic support he obtains from the US Government to develop a system of surveillance and control of all citizens of the world. Now it is no longer the extension of the market to all areas of the world that will maintain commerce and peace, which is what has been said since the Enlightenment and even since the creation of the European Union; Now they have seen that the only way to guarantee peace is through military technologies, through automatic weapons aimed at war: surveillance cameras, drones… A kind of technology that allows them to monitor and control the entire planet.“he explains.
Hence Palantir’s interest in obtaining contracts with as many countries as possible. They are told that “they are going to manage, through the hyper-technologization of life, to reach a point where there are no revolts, where there are no people who attack the established order, where there is no antichrist, be it Greta Thunberg or anyone who dares to ask for the regulation of these companies.” “That order will be facilitated by Thiel’s technologies, which will be created like a railway network, but on a global level, and instead of wagons, they will be fighter jets or surveillance cameras, so that as soon as a breach is detected, a response will be made.. It is an absolute reconfiguration of the world, a culmination of the project started in the 70s that tries to break the logic of 200 years of liberal democracies,” concludes Ekaitz Cancela.
All of this that the consulted journalist points out was defined by the former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in other words. “If evil could tweet, this would be the content”he wrote as soon as he saw the manifesto. Varoufakis then translated, true to form, each of Palantir’s 22 points. For the economist, point four, for example, the one that says that “hard power is required” for “the capacity of free and democratic societies to prevail,” actually means: “Glory to brute force! Ethics is for fools.”
Like Varoufakis, the media specialized in technology The Verge “for real human beings.” The last point of the manifesto, the one in which Alex Karp is committed to “resisting the superficial temptation of an empty pluralism without substance”, the one that criticizes “inclusion”, would be translated, according to The Verge, like this: “Are you still with us after 21 points? Great. Welcome to the great mystery. It cost you much less to get here than to join Scientology. Here is the final thesis: Immigration? Bad. Cancel the billionaires? Wrong. Give us money to fight globalism? Good. Just contact us through Cash App.”
But despite the jokes, Palantir continues to be the most powerful company in the world. The company, which Francesca Albanese accused in a report for the United Nations of supporting and benefiting from the genocide committed by Israel in Palestine, continues to close contracts throughout the globe, including in Spain. Here, the Ministry of Defense, Palantir Gothama very useful data analysis system for mass surveillance.
Faced with all this, what to do? For Ekaitz Cancela, “the answer cannot be a kind of progressivism in the abstract, but rather understand that what they are doing is understanding technological progress as something only with war applications, when it could promote the Welfare State, serve to create public industries of culture, media, industries of another type such as the Post Office, or have a role in helping to combat climate change.” Or, as the famous Evgeny Morozov defends, assume that Technology, as such, is not “the problem, but the lack of intellectual rigor and creative imagination”. Something that Thiel or Karp, of course, do not lack.
