Always has been, just look at manifest destiny. It’s always been run by people who were divorced from reality
[Peter Thiel] finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.
- “In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.”
As despicable as Peter Thiel is it’s actually not that far of a stretch to connect Abrahamic/Christian mythos and references into key aspects of One Pieces history and narrative. Especially if you wanna bring in Oda’s love of/fascination with Vikings and the Giants of One Piece and the real life Christianization of the Norse People with the Giants of One Piece being worshippers of the Sun God (aka Luffy aka Christ-like parallel).
He’s got a point there. I’m going to try looking at media that way too. Let’s see, the story of Adam and Eve is a metaphor for me taking a shit. I start out with the temptation to take a shit. When I actually take one, I am cast out of the land of needing to take a shit for taking one and left to walk the Earth, having taken one. Snakes squeeze things, so the snake represents the squeezing of muscles to evacuate my bowels of fecal matter.
Lovely metaphor, never thought of it that way
Funny thing is Thiel is also gay. Literally the most contradictory shi-.
