AstroStelar [he/him]

[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.”

The person in the video also places the caveat near the end that he’s talking about the dev space:

And I think that it might just be the year of the Linux desktop. And when I say that, of course, I do mean for developers. I don’t think my mom’s probably ever going to learn Linux.