Peter Thiel and Palantir – Just another boondoggle from the usual suspects
Fri 10:05 am +00:00, 22 May 2026
Source: https://mileswmathis.com/palan.pdf
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I got into this by going to the Wikipedia page for Palantir, which makes it very easy. Like me, you
may have thought Palantir was a company worth billions, producing super high-tech products. With
Peter Thiel as the “genius” behind it, it would have to be, right? Not really. Did you know that for the
first twenty years of its existence, it made no profit, and actually survived only by being propped up by
the Department of Defense with your taxdollars. Like almost everything else these days. Although we
are told it was valued at $20 billion by 2016, it didn’t make any profit until 2023, when it made a few
million. So what was that valuation based on? Nobody knows. The computer made it up. In 2025
they reported $1.4 billion for operating income—which still isn’t much for a company supposedly
supporting a guy worth $30 billion and all his pals—but almost all of that still comes from the treasury,
meaning your taxdollars, since Palantir’s main clients are DoD and Intelligence. Since we know a large
part of the defense budget is mist (remember the $500 toilet seats and things like that), shouldn’t we ask
if Palantir is just another gigantic fog? Well, yes we should, since its section on “products” at
Wikipedia begs that question in every line.
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Thiel’s early bio makes no sense. He allegedly rose from nowhere to found Paypal, with
backing from the banks like Deutschebank, but why would the banks “venture fund” a competitor to
them? If they thought it was a good idea, why not do it themselves. It is just a slight variation to
online payments, so it is hard to believe it was patentable. I can’t figure out why the banks would allow
these guys to come in and siphon off a bunch of their profit. It is the same question I have asked about
Saudi Arabia: why would the British Empire allow these goatherders in white robes to siphon off
trillions of dollars in profits every year? They had no army, so the British could have taken that area
overnight at any time. The only possible answer is that the Saudis are just a front, and I come to the
same conclusion with Thiel at Paypal. The whole enterprise had to be a feint to make you think the big
banks weren’t doing this. They wanted you to think it was a private enterprise, not only to make you
more likely to try it, but to explain the rise of Peter Thiel. It was this Paypal springboard that explained
the illustrious start of Palantir in 2003.
Thiel admits Palantir was created to combat the new terrorist world after 911. Which of course means
it was all part of that vaudeville, manufactured by Cheney, Rumsfeld, DHS, and all the rest. The
manufactured rise of terrorism and the concomitant rise of the security state. Or, as it has been called
many times before me, security theater. The DoD, Intel, and DHS needed many more new money pits,
and voila, Palantir pops up on cue with a whole list of pretend products nobody needs or wants, but that
the government is itching to buy in your name with your money because, well because that’s what they
do. New Osama bin Ladens are rising up in the mists, new Ted Bundys are hatching in the suburbs,
and if they aren’t it doesn’t matter because FBI and CIA and DHS can create them regardless, as they
always have. And you will fall for it because, well because you always have. You just can’t help
yourself. It is on the screen, so how can you not believe it? Peter Thiel and his Jewish gaypals swear
to you it is true, and Fortune said they were all geniuses, so who are you to say no? Fortune, founded
by CIA agent Henry Luce*, they wouldn’t lie to you, right?
More recently Thiel made the news for giving lectures on the Antichrist. But if you listen closely, you
can see this is all upside down as well. What these people fear—and they really do seem to fear it—is
not the rise of an Antichrist, but a second coming of Christ himself, or a similar figure. Someone who
will arise and throw them down. Yes, what the fake Christian Thiel fears most is Christ, or the Christ
message, which is anti-rich, anti-tech, and anti-control. I remind you of the camel walking through the
eye of a needle being more likely than the rich man getting into heaven. Or Jesus turning over the
moneychangers tables. A venture capitalist and his Jewish buddies can’t like that story. Or the story of
the fowls of the air, who neither sow nor reap, but the Lord takes care of them. So clearly it isn’t the
Antichrist he fears, it is the Christ. And Thiel confirms that, defining his Antichrist as a misguided
altruist or Neo-Luddite or wild crusading Amishman who wants to limit technology to combat the New
World Order Mordor—so basically the same thing the Pharisees said about Jesus. Thiel pretends to
condemn the New World Order, continuing to claim to be a libertarian, but he says this Luddite
response is even worse, since it sparks Armageddon or End Times or something. Conveniently this
lecture blackwashes his opposition and sells rich guys like him as saviors. Who could have seen it
coming? I guess this is an example of his vaunted skills as a rhetorician.
So is Thiel right to be scared? Yes, but not of a new Christ or Antichrist. The revolution isn’t in an
external future, it is eternal and ongoing, with Nature bringing down the Phoenicians one by one, from
within, for foolishly daring to ignore her. It is not some upcoming superman that is Thiel’s doom.
Thiel’s thoughts and actions are their own doom. It is the mirror that is destroying him, as it does with
them all.
That’s the main place Veblen was wrong: he argued that in economics the individual was not important,
what was important were the greater movements of culture and the modes of human interaction that
caused them. Another reason economics is beside the point, and another reason I have always ignored
it. In a society defined by the con and the steal and the lie, there is no economics. There are no forces
at work other than those, so all economics is a cover story. But my point here was that Veblen was
wrong in a far greater sense, because—as Jesus correctly taught—all the important things go on at the
individual spiritual level, with the world as only a backdrop. Economies and cultures come and go, but
they aren’t important because they are abstractions. They are important only insofar as they impede
enlightenment or support it. The current culture strongly impedes it, which makes it a problem to be
solved. You aren’t an ant in a hill, a statistic, or a predestined automaton. You are an eternal
manifestation of spirit, currently matter ensouled, and what you do matters. And spirit is not wuwu, it
is real photons, as physical and material as anything else.† But the Phoenicians long ago arrayed
themselves against that fact, because it did not suit their schemes of profit. To collect their wealth, they
had to treat all other objects—people, animals, trees, and the very Earth herself—as empty shells and
tokens, to be traded and consumed and tossed aside. For them everything was a commodity, even their
own wives and children, and nothing was ensouled. Nothing was alive, everything dead, both before
and after death, including themselves. So you can see why they would age poorly. You could see why
these people say the strange things they do. You can see why they are cursed: they have cursed
themselves with their own unnatural beliefs.
