Peter Thiel, avid Trump backer and affluent leader of the world, authored an op-ed in the Financial Times that vividly mirrors the ordeal of being trapped by an over-enthusiastic individual at a house gathering in Austin, Texas.

“A time for truth and reconciliation,” looms as the intimidating headline of the article. The nod to South Africa’s post-Apartheid policies stands as the clearest statement it carries. The subheading plunges straight into a rambling discourse: “Trump’s return to the White House foreshadows the ‘apokálypsis’ of the old guard’s secrets.”

In Thiel’s perspective, Trump taking office signals a fresh epoch’s beginning. Thiel adopts archaic, or rather “ancien,” spellings for numerous terms. Words like “apokálypsis” which he believes will initiate the grand unveiling of countless truths. Who was responsible for Jeffrey Epstein’s death? What’s the authentic narrative behind JFK’s assassination? Was COVID-19 crafted as a U.S. bioweapon? Did Brazil prohibit X on the orders of the Biden administration?

In Thiel’s view, Trump holds the potential to disclose all these truths and more. It’s an essay raging against a term coined by Thiel’s “comrade and associate” Eric Weinstein, termed the “Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) — those media outlets, bureaucratic systems, universities, and government-funded NGOs that historically restricted public discourse.” In essence, the elites.

Several issues emerge here. Chief amongst them, Thiel is, by any measure, an elite. He is entrenched in the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex he claims to combat. He is the type who appears on Piers Morgan to critique slain CEOs and contributes editorial pieces in the Financial Times.

Thiel’s worth exceeds $10 billion. He invested substantial time and funding in J.D. Vance’s political aspirations, a man who now stands a heartbeat away from the presidency. Thiel’s editorial comes off like a populist outburst induced by ketamine and amphetamines. It is a plea to the public layered with literary allusions that will escape most college graduates.

This is a person who financed Facebook and PayPal and now supports a mass observation and AI company named after a cursed object from The Lord of the Rings. He has access to more revealing and doomsday truths than the ordinary individual, yet he calls for more. Presumably on behalf of us all.

The op-ed mystifies. “In hindsight, the internet had already initiated our liberation from the DISC confinement following the imprisonment demise of financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2019,” he claims. Who was in the White House in 2019 when Epstein perished? His much-touted Trump. Who frequently appears on Epstein’s flight manifests? Trump. Who has been repeatedly photographed with Epstein? Trump.

“The future beckons new and unusual innovations,” Thiel asserts. “Novel concepts might have rescued the old order, which scarcely acknowledged, much less addressed, our most profound inquiries—the causes of the five-decade stagnation in scientific and technological advancement in the US, the racket of surging real estate prices, and the explosion of national debt.”

Let me assist the billionaire. From the perspective of anyone but unusual spreadsheet analysts, scientific and technological progress flourished in the U.S. over the past five decades. Real estate prices are escalating because we refuse to construct additional housing, and venture capitalist vultures like Thiel occupy the scarce resources. Public debt ballooned because Presidents like Trump disregard it and spend extravagantly.

“Our ancien regime, akin to the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, presumed the festivity would never cease,” Thiel declares. It is astonishing that Thiel remains oblivious to his role in the “ancien regime,” being one of the elites reveling at the celebration.

“There will be no revival of the past prior to the internet,” he states. And he’s correct. However, if his lauded populist internet wields any power, they won’t see Thiel as a champion or visionary. He will just be another figure for the chopping block, an elite foreigner who penned about apokálypsis and The Decameron while California blazed.