KIRAC analyzes this metaphysical struggle: Mars versus the Cross. Where billionaires compete over truth and power.

René Girard

Girard’s scapegoat theory says societies preserve order by directing violence onto a victim. Christianity is decisive because it reveals this mechanism, taking the side of the victim. This revelation is apocalyptic. Thiel uses this to make Christianity the final framework for meaning and power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche distinguished ruler morality — strength, creation, affirmation — from slave morality built on guilt and obedience. He saw Christianity as the victory of slave morality. In this conversation, Musk represents the Apollonian, ruler path of technology and Mars, while Thiel embodies the priestly, ascetic path that demands belief as the condition of rule.

The conversation turns on these frames: Girard’s Christianity-as-apocalypse and Nietzsche’s morality split, showing how Musk and Thiel fight over metaphysical territory — Mars versus the Cross.

Runtime 18 minutes. Release date 2025 september 18 6pm (CEST)

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