Peter Thiel's secret society just had its membership list published online. What it reveals is not a scandal. It is a system.

Peter Thiel’s secret society just had its membership list published online. What it reveals is not a scandal. It is a system.

Peter Thiel’s secret society just had its membership list published online. What it reveals is not a scandal. It is a system.

…So what do they actually discuss in that room? The leaked agenda for the 2026 retreat answers the question. Three sessions stand out:

  • “Navigating WWIII”

  • “Build-a-Party” run by a former White House national security official

  • “Build-a-Cult” moderated by Steve Gatena, CEO of the Christian app Pray.com

These are not the concerns of people worried about a coming catastrophe. These are the concerns of people planning to manage one. You navigate a war you expect to happen. You build a party and a cult when you have decided ordinary people are raw material to be organized and steered from above. MAGA already proved the model works. In a country where public education has been hollowed out and despair runs deep, you can manufacture a mass movement from scratch and point it wherever you want.

And the war they casually propose to “navigate” is not abstract to them. The people in that room sell battlefield technology. They run data fusion for the Pentagon and the CIA. When the men who build the machinery of war gather privately to discuss how to come out ahead of the next one, the question of who benefits answers itself.

Here is the part that should end the argument. When Dialog’s 2026 registrants filled out their sign-up forms, they were asked to predict the future. Their answers were nearly uniform. AI will displace workers at scale. Mass unemployment is coming. One registrant wrote it plainly: “Social degeneration will continue to accelerate.”

Crosspost from https://lemmy.ml/post/49002087