Continuing our Thielian deep dive series…i what’s the “Apocalypse” anyways?
As firey and brimstoney as the insinuation may be, the Greek word “apokalypsis” really just means “unveiling”, which is a relatively non-threatening subject we’ve actually explored on these pages previously,ii so why do we instincitively associate the term with such world-ending mega-theatre?
Perhaps because we’ve become too secular, too comfortable, too feminised, too antichristic… because really, the “unveiling” is no more than the rupture of our comfortable illusion of indefinite optimism. It’s but our births – bloody guts and all – a necessary and proper step in the process of growth, which is to say individuation. In the broader societal sense, the “unveiling” is but the other side of the tipping point beyond which it becomes undeniably clear that our institutions are not building a better future for our children, merely managing a comfortable decline, and ultimately allowing us to come to terms with seeing the Fukuyaman “End of History” scam for what it is: a hospice for a dying civilization.
The tipping point itself? That would be our old friend Armageddon.iii From Hebrew Har Megiddo (“Mount Megiddo”), Armageddon is the final battle, hastened by none other, in our present case, than Wokism, which sacrificially consumes society’s producers (ie. masculine virtue) and in doing so anti-katechonicallyiv serves as an eschatological accelerant. This is a charitable view to be sure! But I have to give my most worthy, butcherious opponents the benefit of the doubt. It can’t all just be thermodynamics, right?
So it is that technology is the necessary (if hardly sufficient) ingredient for any resolutionary integration along this gradient. While tech (and wokism) don’t cause the apocalypse, they’re the compression algorithms that turns Girardian slow burns into jackboot’d step functions. Believe it or not, this can actually be modelled mathematically:
Where:
A is the probability of a controlled, coercive system emerging
R is the probability of uncontrolled, chaotic collapse
M is mimetic density
T is technology multiplier increasing the probability of societal collapse
K is katechon coefficient decreasing the probability of societal collapse
An equation suggesting that as societal tensions (M) and technological advancements (T) grow, and the capacity to manage these tensions (K) declines, the likelihood of an Apocalyptic outcome (either A or R) increases exponentially.v
As such, you might say that “nothing stops this train”,vi which is to say that the “unveiling” is going to happen sooner or later, so we may as well rip the band-aid off now, no matter how combustible the consequences.
Brighter days lay just beyond the Thielian horizon, just past the end of the rainbow. Can’t you see it?
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- Part I of this series is effectively Electric (Thielian) Antichrist from October 5, 2025. This is Part II then. Part III? Quite possibly “Cities”… I’m back in LA this week, so it’s a germane topic. ↩
- In cryptic poetic verse no less:
Unveiling,
Revealing that
Which exists
Is not invention,
But discovery. - Not to be confused with “Arma-Get-It-On,” the porn movie featuring Gracie Hart a.k.a. Miss Congeniality, ie. Sandra Bullock. ↩
- To be clear, “katechon” can be understood as covenant and commandment ; an orderful restrainer of totalitarianism. Not to be confused (by jews) with the “eschaton” as final judgement / arrival of the mashiach. ↩
- As K → 0, the exponential asymptotes to 1, so the only discretionary variable is the ratio A/R, which is increased by every policy that expands surveillance, welfare, or global governance, and decreased by every policy that fragments sovereignty, hardens borders, and multiplies competing jurisdictions. Hence Thiel’s apparent political schizophrenia: backing Trump (fragmentation) while funding Palantir (surveillance), an effective hedging the A/R ratio under uncertainty about which branch of the equation will dominate, a manner of dealing with unknown unknowns:
- In a very different context than Lyn Alden intended, but an effective and useful context nonetheless. ↩