2019-12-17
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I was surprised to find out that "Techno-Animism" is a thing.

	I remember Terence McKenna talking about
	how he thought of the search engine as an
	oracle. You throw it a bone, it throws
	something back.

	I'm sure the engine was more psychedelic
	back then. Nowadays you have to really
	work to find the bones to throw.

        So, it was a surprise and then a bit of
	a disappointment. I remembered hearing 
	about the Shinto practices at some point
	in the past.

	But this wasn't really what I had in mind.
        
        I was thinking about something more like
        what Philip K Dick would come up with.
        Which reminds me, I should read him.
        
I am wondering about the following:
        
        1) Religion has been the most effective   
        propaganda so far (By the way, I don't mean
        anything very negative with the word "propaganda")
        
        2) The way the advertisers have taken over
        everything doesn't leave them that many places 
        left to take over and conquer.       
        
        1 + 2 = 3
        
        3) The tracking and ads will have to take over
        religion somehow.
        
        I have a feeling it will be like the fitness apps
        combined with meditation apps, but for religion.
	Maybe a statue that projects images. Hell, there
	probably is something like this already. Throw 
	in a bit of shopping tv evangelista and you are 
	pretty much set.
        
        In my nightmares Hitler is reincarnated at this       
        point. He almost accomplished the evil masterplan
        last time. I think this time he won't even break
        a sweat. With the rate people are getting their
        DNA tests stored in proprietary databases, rounding
        up whichever group of people you want will be
        trivial. And as he takes control of the technological
        objects of worship and speaks with the tongue of
        the league of gods instead of as a person, there
        is no stopping him.
        
        What most people don't think about is that
        when you log in your own DNA, you are logging in 
        your parents and children as well.


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