Peter Thiel of Palantir [11], most aggressively reactionary [12] of the Trump-linked nexus of fascist tech bros [13], now openly invokes [14] the Faust story [15], 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 [16], in defense of the notion that "evil can be good." In Episode 350 [17] of the CounterVortex podcast [18], Bill Weinberg turns to the 1940s dialogue between rationalist JBS Haldane [19] and moralist CS Lewis [20] 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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