Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand | News | The Guardian
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How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
by Mark O’Connell
Thu 15 Feb 2018 06.00 GMT
Last modified on Thu 15 Feb 2018 11.32 GMT
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If you’re interested in the end of the world, you’re interested in New Zealand. If you’re interested in how our current cultural anxieties – climate catastrophe, decline of transatlantic political orders, resurgent nuclear terror – manifest themselves in apocalyptic visions, you’re interested in the place occupied by this distant archipelago of apparent peace and stability against the roiling unease of the day.