Considering it’s in quotes, I somewhat suspect it’s a sarcastic response meaning they didn’t understand what they were replying to, as that is the context behind where the quote comes from.
Seems to suggest that the Trump entourage immanentizing the Eschaton right now
I think this is what they were confused by. The quote they said was from Family Guy where Peter doesn’t know what “shallow and pedantic” means, and repeats it after someone says something using other big words he doesn’t understand.
Now I see. What I meant was (as Wikipedia helpfully translates) “hastening the apocalypse”.
Wikipedia also helpfully includes a paragraph that explains where I know the expression from:
In Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s fictional The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the evil scheme uncovered late in the tale is an attempt to immanentize the eschaton, a secret scheme of the American Medical Association, an evil rock band, to bring about a mass human sacrifice, the purpose of which is the release of enough “life-energy” to give eternal life to a select group of initiates, including Adolf Hitler.
You may notice that there’s a plotline similarity here between the book and the US under Vance’s/Thiel’s accelerationism ideology as well the Silicon Valley obsession with eternal life.
Considering it’s in quotes, I somewhat suspect it’s a sarcastic response meaning they didn’t understand what they were replying to, as that is the context behind where the quote comes from.
So you’re saying it’s a response to the meme itself? If so, I am puzzled as to what it’s supposed to mean.
I think this is what they were confused by. The quote they said was from Family Guy where Peter doesn’t know what “shallow and pedantic” means, and repeats it after someone says something using other big words he doesn’t understand.
Now I see. What I meant was (as Wikipedia helpfully translates) “hastening the apocalypse”.
Wikipedia also helpfully includes a paragraph that explains where I know the expression from:
You may notice that there’s a plotline similarity here between the book and the US under Vance’s/Thiel’s accelerationism ideology as well the Silicon Valley obsession with eternal life.