Antichrist or Armageddon? Peter Thiel rethinks apocalypse from Silicon Valley.

FILE - Peter Thiel speaks at the 2022 Converge Tech Summit in Feb. 2022, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia/Creative Commons)
(RNS) — A lone tyrant is less likely to succeed in leveraging fear to justify total control, but in Thiel's view: A centralized autocracy may well.