Does PoE's Thaos remind anyone of current politics?

[Iznaliu]

With all of the debates over the NSA and whether the massive amount of "monitoring" it performs is justified. which continue be relevant long after its revelation, I was reminded of Snowden's decision to leak it in the first place. At the time, some were saying it was the wrong thing to do since some information is best kept secret. This is, interestingly enough, the same argument made by Thaos when he justified the Leaden Key hiding the fact that the gods were created, creating an interesting parallel between PoE and the current political climate.

What do people think?

 

[Sentinel]

Thaos had a perfectly valid point, nihilism corrupts and destroys society. He did nothing wrong, aside from serving a nigger cunt God.

 

[FreeKaner]

It's not really recent politics. It was especially a hot topic in interwar era and cold war. Nothing new either, there is questioning about whether it's better that the knowledge should be controlled is old, discussed even by likes of Plato. PoE derives a lot of its general ideas from the basics of Greek philosophy, as well as its Gods. Even priests are more alike to oracles of Greece than the clergy of Abrahamic religions.

 

[Luckmann]

I was about to say no, but then I remembered that there's such a thing as ongoing combat intelligence. Thaos was full of shit, though.