Put another way – are you interested in antiquity under and the Middle Ages because you want to escape the century of the world wars & the holocaust or are you interested in them because you think some people should be slaves to others
Thiel is a Straussian too iirc, and while Strauss is a much more ambiguous figure, he’s another guy whose reactionary tendencies were clearly the product of living in the nightmare that was Europe in the 20th century who has a whole cult of sinister nerds
