The other day I read an article about how Peter Thiel has been going around giving strange speeches in which he speculates about who the Antichrist might be and what signs we should look for to spot him if he shows up, and all I could think of was that
Caitlin, are you aware that Peter Thiel was allowed to bypass the legal requirements for New Zealand citizenship while John Key was PM? He wanted to buy a large property in the South Island but to do so would normally require governmental permission since he was a foreign citizen. Key fast tracked his citizenship without him ever having resided there.
Plebs must comply with the visa application & 5 year residency rule before citizenship, but not Thiel.
wow never knew that Jane, thank you. I guess his wealth allowed him to avoid the legal requirements for all other people seeking New Zealand citizenship. Money talks I guess, and the more you have the more influence you can buy
Exactly what I was thinking. Why ask that question right now, what is in the offing that we don't yet know about that he makes people look elsewhere? Though, I don't think he has dibs on being the Antichrist-Isee him like a kreacher to the antichrist-he is probably very close to the one who is, and the one that some people think is. At present,to my mind, there are three candidates who are there for the confusion they can bring to the end game.
Carl Jung said: "Wisdom without compassion is cruelty, and compassion without wisdom is suicide". Peter seems to fit the first half of that clause to a "T".
The most repugnant human I've seen, more so even than Trump.
In my view, compassion is wisdom, the insight that we all share a common bond, not only 99.9% DNA but the ability to look into the eyes of another human being or animal and see kin, leading us to the result of compassion, which is kindness. I do not feel this with a rock, which is a crystal lattice but I do with any living creature, even a bug which will fight or flee if menaced, just as we do.
The psychopaths who have naturally come to power in a system based on profit over people are those who have lost the wisdom of compassion: "“We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
Empathy, he said, has been “weaponized.”
A society without empathy, which is what oligarchs like Thiel and Musk, and their puppets like Vance and Miller, propose, is what is called fascism. It will not call itself fascism but Americanism or some other Newspeak. This will, unless we unite and show who's the boss, take over the media, the narrative control, and we will all become slaves licking their boots as they crush us into the polluted soil.
In this painting my Caitlin, I feel the evil creep of fascism, in a medium where hatred can be used to depict the hateful.
Re: "Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society." Something doesn't add up here: Isn't Musk said to be the richest man in the world? It's not possible for the richest man in the world to believe in empathy. Remember Christ saying that "it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven. If Musk knew what empathy is, he would no longer be the richest man in the world. He would have given all his extreme wealth to the hungry and the starving, and would no longer be that rich.
I recall Musk asked how much it would cost to end world hunger, so a charitable organisation presented the figure and he bought twitter instead. They fear empathy because it is inherently human and the path to bonding, the last thing they want it the general public bonding rather than being manipulated into division
I doubt they fear empathy. There is nothing scary about it. Not only humans bond, criminals also bond, because criminals fear all those who are law abiding who could report them to the police. That's why they bond only with other criminals, because they feel safe with them.
Empathy....or compassion, which we may view as peace, is the great enemy of those who profit from war, the banks who fund it, the energy oligarchs who fuel it, and the weapons makers who sell the weapons of death and destruction: this is the foundation of modern capitalism, and so those who preach peace, or "love" such as Jesus, Gandhi, MLK, JFK, and RFK are murdered. Peace, which is rooted in empathy is the only enemy that the war mongerers cannot overcome, the only weapon that can defeat hatred and its ally, war.
The purpose of war, which was invented about 5000 yrs ago as a feature of the new invention of the state, is to enrich the haves, put down the have nots, protect the property of the owners of wealth, and to preserve the hierarchy, the inequality and the privilege of those on top.
Those who fight for the have nots becomes the enermy, whether a Marx suggesting that violence (but not necessarily) may be needed to overcome inequality, or a Gandhi or MLK, fighting with non violence as a superior tactic. It is because of the power of empathy, love, solidarity, in whatever form it comes (unity) that it is always attacked by the powers that be. You can mow down an army but what can you do when a million citizens rise up, shunning the violence which their oppressors are the masters of, unarmed, refusing to back down.
We saw the answer in 1989 when 7 nations, unarmed but united, using massive protests and strikes took down 7 militarized dictatorships, without bloodshed. The people united can never be defeated, and what unites people is empathy. And tht isa why it is the greatest enemy of the war state, late capitalism, and those whose fortunes rely on an obedient population of workers.
Wow. This is one of the best comments I've read on Substack. I agree that the oligarchs exploit empathy. That is the entire basis of the Club of Rome's choice of "Climate Change(TM)" as their cause celeb to get the plebes under control. This has been a plan since the 1970s, with the Rockefellers and Maurice Strong leading the way. It's why Greta Thunberg was such an effective trope for a while.
EW. The Club of Rome Climate Change is not getting the plebes under control (they are now with a fossil fuel world) but changing that: "Solving climate change isn’t just about technology or reducing emissions — it also involves tackling inequality, poverty, governance, behaviour, culture. Example: one of their modelling scenarios (“The Giant Leap”) connects climate stabilisation with ending extreme poverty and reforming the financial system. "
Cision News
Ending poverty is not controlling the plebes but dismantling the control systems in place.
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit" says Musk. That, of course, is the biggest lie. Americanism, American exceptionalism, American Manifest Destiny, America -the greatest country in the world, are all built on lack of empathy, on self-aggrandisement, and self-interest. America, as an entity, has always been supremacist which innately excludes compassion and empathy, liberal window-dressing notwithstanding.
I should add that the same self-aggrandizing, self-interest, inability to be compassionate or empathetic also applies to so-called Western civilization. America is now just the most obvious example, having taken that role from England and a few European countries.
Demand Aston Villa’s match against Maccabi Tel Aviv be cancelled
If you are in the UK:
On 6 November, Aston Villa FC is scheduled to host Maccabi Tel Aviv in the UEFA Europa League. Allowing Israeli football teams to compete in international competitions sanitises its horrific violence and allows Israel to cynically present itself as a normal country, obscuring the truth that it is carrying out a genocide, and imposing a regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
It also means IOF players get to travel as a sports team, there is nothing sporting about any IOF person, they only fight when all the odds are in their favour, otherwise they cheat like the devil's they are.
I think there has always been an "Antichristness" that some people, and bureaucratic entities channel more than others.
;-(
It is fairly pervasive. It needs to get rid of a lot of us to sustain profits and hierarchy as global industrial economy shrinks and the global financial system, based on exponential growth of debt and interest, breaks as a result.
For those channeling "Antichristness" this is an opportunity to trick and torture people as they get rid of the "useless eaters", who do not directly serve them.
He is terrifying. In photos he looks sweaty and ill. When I read he'd called Greta Thunberg the possible anti-Christ, I realized what a sick, dangerous person he is. The obscene wealth of these billionaires, trillionaires, has twisted and warped them, and they can't see it. Wouldn't most normal people think of all the good they could do, all the suffering they could ease with that much money?
And always marvelous portraits! Have you done Greta?
Francis/Clare, The obscene wealth of billionaires and trillionaires may be making them psychopathic but it is the capitalist system that nurtures and makes it possible for them to thrive.
Men like Peter Thiel own the means of production and capital and the rest of us are serfs. The good fight should be against neoliberal capitalism.
I am a (retired) curator of contemporary art and a political radical. I LOVE your portraits, which are outrageously expressive, powerful, and absolutely stunning in their sensual painterliness. I wish it were possible to organize a traveling exhibition of them, which would accompanied by their creator.
The Age of Billionaires is making the Gilded Age look like child's play. Such obscenity, such wretched excess, all in the name of "Freedom and Democracy".
Peter Thiel is transhumanism or no-humanism, personified. He is a member of the bottom-feeding, entitled, smug, self-satisfied Cult that hopes to control all of humanity via the Cloud and advanced surveillance technology(aka, enslavement). Many of us humans have a very different, more benevolent vision for the evolution of humanity. Thiel is a pernicious creep and he's actually a nobody with no real power, unless humans give way to his parasitical intent.
Continuous vigilance is necessary in order to thwart the evil of entities like Thiel.
I recall that when he was given the job of the prison for immigrants (or boat people, as they became to be known), the address was a shack in the Middle if nowhere, yet he was given millions to make life unbearable for people trying to escape what they ended up in because - government.
He didn't need to build anything, just run things as per usual. It still bothers me that he, of all the people available, the cruellest, unmolested was handed the job - there was no advertising, no vetting, no interviews, it was just handed to him - why?
I constantly use word luigi as a Verb to act and as a noun and as a adjective. All fine. Repeat, rinse. Has come to that with this cross pollination of capitalists with free rein corporations and free range war monger industry complex sprinkled with some cia, mossad and m16 to spice up profits.
There are a select few who represent how terrible this world has become. He's a member of that group.
He's also a long-time sponsor and mentor of J(ust) D(umb) Vance.
PERFECT POST
The problem is that the many are held in check by the select few. There are way fewer of the awake folks than the many.
Well said Marlene!
Wanted for Crimes Against Humanity. Great painting.
Caitlin, are you aware that Peter Thiel was allowed to bypass the legal requirements for New Zealand citizenship while John Key was PM? He wanted to buy a large property in the South Island but to do so would normally require governmental permission since he was a foreign citizen. Key fast tracked his citizenship without him ever having resided there.
Plebs must comply with the visa application & 5 year residency rule before citizenship, but not Thiel.
wow never knew that Jane, thank you. I guess his wealth allowed him to avoid the legal requirements for all other people seeking New Zealand citizenship. Money talks I guess, and the more you have the more influence you can buy
Would not surprise me in the least.
He must have paid for it with much money ?
The paltry sum of NZ 1 million - equivalent to approximately US 750k at the time - disguised as a donation to the Christchurch earthquake fund.
It would make sense for the actual Antichrist to say "Look, over there!"
Exactly what I was thinking. Why ask that question right now, what is in the offing that we don't yet know about that he makes people look elsewhere? Though, I don't think he has dibs on being the Antichrist-Isee him like a kreacher to the antichrist-he is probably very close to the one who is, and the one that some people think is. At present,to my mind, there are three candidates who are there for the confusion they can bring to the end game.
A wise woman once wrote decades ago
that the true anti-Christ is the advertising industry.
"They lie about the secret of happiness and the purpose of life."
What would she say now?
Who else tries to control and shape our minds now?
Our system i.e. capitalism. Advertising is only a part of it.
Carl Jung said: "Wisdom without compassion is cruelty, and compassion without wisdom is suicide". Peter seems to fit the first half of that clause to a "T".
The most repugnant human I've seen, more so even than Trump.
In my view, compassion is wisdom, the insight that we all share a common bond, not only 99.9% DNA but the ability to look into the eyes of another human being or animal and see kin, leading us to the result of compassion, which is kindness. I do not feel this with a rock, which is a crystal lattice but I do with any living creature, even a bug which will fight or flee if menaced, just as we do.
The psychopaths who have naturally come to power in a system based on profit over people are those who have lost the wisdom of compassion: "“We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
Empathy, he said, has been “weaponized.”
A society without empathy, which is what oligarchs like Thiel and Musk, and their puppets like Vance and Miller, propose, is what is called fascism. It will not call itself fascism but Americanism or some other Newspeak. This will, unless we unite and show who's the boss, take over the media, the narrative control, and we will all become slaves licking their boots as they crush us into the polluted soil.
In this painting my Caitlin, I feel the evil creep of fascism, in a medium where hatred can be used to depict the hateful.
Re: "Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society." Something doesn't add up here: Isn't Musk said to be the richest man in the world? It's not possible for the richest man in the world to believe in empathy. Remember Christ saying that "it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven. If Musk knew what empathy is, he would no longer be the richest man in the world. He would have given all his extreme wealth to the hungry and the starving, and would no longer be that rich.
I recall Musk asked how much it would cost to end world hunger, so a charitable organisation presented the figure and he bought twitter instead. They fear empathy because it is inherently human and the path to bonding, the last thing they want it the general public bonding rather than being manipulated into division
I doubt they fear empathy. There is nothing scary about it. Not only humans bond, criminals also bond, because criminals fear all those who are law abiding who could report them to the police. That's why they bond only with other criminals, because they feel safe with them.
Empathy....or compassion, which we may view as peace, is the great enemy of those who profit from war, the banks who fund it, the energy oligarchs who fuel it, and the weapons makers who sell the weapons of death and destruction: this is the foundation of modern capitalism, and so those who preach peace, or "love" such as Jesus, Gandhi, MLK, JFK, and RFK are murdered. Peace, which is rooted in empathy is the only enemy that the war mongerers cannot overcome, the only weapon that can defeat hatred and its ally, war.
The purpose of war, which was invented about 5000 yrs ago as a feature of the new invention of the state, is to enrich the haves, put down the have nots, protect the property of the owners of wealth, and to preserve the hierarchy, the inequality and the privilege of those on top.
Those who fight for the have nots becomes the enermy, whether a Marx suggesting that violence (but not necessarily) may be needed to overcome inequality, or a Gandhi or MLK, fighting with non violence as a superior tactic. It is because of the power of empathy, love, solidarity, in whatever form it comes (unity) that it is always attacked by the powers that be. You can mow down an army but what can you do when a million citizens rise up, shunning the violence which their oppressors are the masters of, unarmed, refusing to back down.
We saw the answer in 1989 when 7 nations, unarmed but united, using massive protests and strikes took down 7 militarized dictatorships, without bloodshed. The people united can never be defeated, and what unites people is empathy. And tht isa why it is the greatest enemy of the war state, late capitalism, and those whose fortunes rely on an obedient population of workers.
Wow. This is one of the best comments I've read on Substack. I agree that the oligarchs exploit empathy. That is the entire basis of the Club of Rome's choice of "Climate Change(TM)" as their cause celeb to get the plebes under control. This has been a plan since the 1970s, with the Rockefellers and Maurice Strong leading the way. It's why Greta Thunberg was such an effective trope for a while.
EW. The Club of Rome Climate Change is not getting the plebes under control (they are now with a fossil fuel world) but changing that: "Solving climate change isn’t just about technology or reducing emissions — it also involves tackling inequality, poverty, governance, behaviour, culture. Example: one of their modelling scenarios (“The Giant Leap”) connects climate stabilisation with ending extreme poverty and reforming the financial system. "
Cision News
Ending poverty is not controlling the plebes but dismantling the control systems in place.
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit" says Musk. That, of course, is the biggest lie. Americanism, American exceptionalism, American Manifest Destiny, America -the greatest country in the world, are all built on lack of empathy, on self-aggrandisement, and self-interest. America, as an entity, has always been supremacist which innately excludes compassion and empathy, liberal window-dressing notwithstanding.
I should add that the same self-aggrandizing, self-interest, inability to be compassionate or empathetic also applies to so-called Western civilization. America is now just the most obvious example, having taken that role from England and a few European countries.
Demand Aston Villa’s match against Maccabi Tel Aviv be cancelled
If you are in the UK:
On 6 November, Aston Villa FC is scheduled to host Maccabi Tel Aviv in the UEFA Europa League. Allowing Israeli football teams to compete in international competitions sanitises its horrific violence and allows Israel to cynically present itself as a normal country, obscuring the truth that it is carrying out a genocide, and imposing a regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/astonvillamatch
It also means IOF players get to travel as a sports team, there is nothing sporting about any IOF person, they only fight when all the odds are in their favour, otherwise they cheat like the devil's they are.
I think there has always been an "Antichristness" that some people, and bureaucratic entities channel more than others.
;-(
It is fairly pervasive. It needs to get rid of a lot of us to sustain profits and hierarchy as global industrial economy shrinks and the global financial system, based on exponential growth of debt and interest, breaks as a result.
For those channeling "Antichristness" this is an opportunity to trick and torture people as they get rid of the "useless eaters", who do not directly serve them.
He is terrifying. In photos he looks sweaty and ill. When I read he'd called Greta Thunberg the possible anti-Christ, I realized what a sick, dangerous person he is. The obscene wealth of these billionaires, trillionaires, has twisted and warped them, and they can't see it. Wouldn't most normal people think of all the good they could do, all the suffering they could ease with that much money?
And always marvelous portraits! Have you done Greta?
Francis/Clare, The obscene wealth of billionaires and trillionaires may be making them psychopathic but it is the capitalist system that nurtures and makes it possible for them to thrive.
Men like Peter Thiel own the means of production and capital and the rest of us are serfs. The good fight should be against neoliberal capitalism.
You're right.
I am a (retired) curator of contemporary art and a political radical. I LOVE your portraits, which are outrageously expressive, powerful, and absolutely stunning in their sensual painterliness. I wish it were possible to organize a traveling exhibition of them, which would accompanied by their creator.
An authentique POS disguise as human.
The Age of Billionaires is making the Gilded Age look like child's play. Such obscenity, such wretched excess, all in the name of "Freedom and Democracy".
Peter Thiel is transhumanism or no-humanism, personified. He is a member of the bottom-feeding, entitled, smug, self-satisfied Cult that hopes to control all of humanity via the Cloud and advanced surveillance technology(aka, enslavement). Many of us humans have a very different, more benevolent vision for the evolution of humanity. Thiel is a pernicious creep and he's actually a nobody with no real power, unless humans give way to his parasitical intent.
Continuous vigilance is necessary in order to thwart the evil of entities like Thiel.
I recall that when he was given the job of the prison for immigrants (or boat people, as they became to be known), the address was a shack in the Middle if nowhere, yet he was given millions to make life unbearable for people trying to escape what they ended up in because - government.
He didn't need to build anything, just run things as per usual. It still bothers me that he, of all the people available, the cruellest, unmolested was handed the job - there was no advertising, no vetting, no interviews, it was just handed to him - why?
"Their abuse ends whenever we decide we've had enough"
Thank you for reminding me there is hope and a path out of this mess. We just need to find our way to start that journey.
I constantly use word luigi as a Verb to act and as a noun and as a adjective. All fine. Repeat, rinse. Has come to that with this cross pollination of capitalists with free rein corporations and free range war monger industry complex sprinkled with some cia, mossad and m16 to spice up profits.
Let journalists into Gaza!
Here’s a petition sponsored by Drop Site News:
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-israel-immediately-lift-its-ban-on-foreign-journalists?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email