Peter Thiel of Palantir [9], most aggressively reactionary [10] of the Trump-linked nexus of fascist tech bros [11], now openly invokes [12] the Faust story [13], in which a scientist sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power—and not as a warning against hubris, but as a positive example [14], in defense of the notion that "evil can be good." In Episode 350 of the CounterVortex podcast [15], Bill Weinberg turns to the 1940s dialgue between rationalist JBS Haldane [16] and moralist CS Lewis [17] to explore how technology and politics—and especially the intersection of the two—can become Satanic, in a metaphorical if not literal sense.
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