And What Marshall McLuhan Saw Coming Decades Ago
Peter Thiel didn’t answer the question.
When asked in a New York Times interview if he wanted the human race to endure, he hesitated.
He could’ve given a safe, rehearsed line. But he didn’t.
And that silence spoke volumes.
Because deep down, Thiel doesn’t want humanity to endure — at least not as it is.
He wants to transcend it. To replace it. To dominate it through technology.
Why?
Because he’s still unconsciously trying to win a battle he lost as a child.
💔 The Joyless Child with a Brilliant Mind — and a Wounded Heart
The revelations in Max Chafkin’s biography The Contrarian are chilling. Thiel was bullied, mocked, isolated.
He never smiled. He had no close friends.
He was intelligent — too intelligent — and wore it like armor.
And when that wasn’t enough to protect him, he turned to control. Ritual. Superiority. Arrogance.
“I never saw him smile,” said a classmate.
Another recalled: “He seemed to walk around thinking, ‘F--- you, world.’”
That’s not the voice of a villain.
That’s the voice of a deeply wounded child.
And instead of healing that pain, he armored it with power and directed it at the rest of humanity.
🧠 McLuhan Warned Us: Technology Without a Body Becomes Violent
Decades before the internet, Marshall McLuhan saw it coming.
He warned of a future where media would strip us of our bodies, our identity, our capacity to feel:
“You’re a discarnate being. You have a very different relation to the world… It has deprived people really of their identity.”
McLuhan understood that technology, without moral clarity, becomes a playground for the wounded.
And when the wounded child is never seen, never heard, never loved — he grows up to build machines that reflect his pain.
That’s Peter Thiel.
He invests in cryonics, embryo screening, drug-fueled “superhuman” sports.
He wants immortality, not healing. Control, not community.
Transcendence — but only for those like him.
The rest of us can rot in our flesh and bones.
🧬 Transhumanism: The Child’s Final Fantasy
Thiel’s obsession with science fiction, with “quiet control,” with reengineering humanity isn’t innovation.
It’s reenactment.
He’s still that awkward, mocked, effeminate boy — but now with billions to fund his revenge.
He was bullied for being different. Now he funds machines to decide who gets to be born.
He was laughed at for being rigid. Now he funds tech that freezes bodies, defies nature, and bypasses feeling.
He was once powerless. Now he buys power itself.
But none of this will save him.
Because you can’t escape childhood by replacing the human race.
And you can’t heal by turning into a god.
🧘♀️ McLuhan’s Final Warning: Return to the Body — or Be Consumed
McLuhan was no Luddite. He wasn’t anti-tech. But he was clear-eyed.
“Without a body, man becomes violent.”
He didn’t just mean physical violence. He meant psychic numbness.
The kind that grows when we fall in love with technological extensions of ourselves — and forget who we are.
McLuhan believed that unchecked tech would strip away privacy, emotion, identity — and community.
That’s exactly what’s happening now.
And unless we face the inner child driving the machine — we will all become its collateral damage.
🔥 Final Thought:
Thiel doesn’t want to save humanity.
He wants to escape it — and punish it for failing to protect the boy he once was.
That boy needed love, not power.
He needed protection, not profit.
He needed to feel, not ascend.
And so do we.
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