> Remember this is a legacy worldview. We'd been building all sorts of
dependencies on the idea of God. You can't just s/God/evolution/ and
expect a 3000-year-old codebase to compile.
Nietzsche's parable of the Death of God is absolutely essential
reading for all hackers. Pay very close attention to the exact words
of the madman in the marketplace. Technology is very evidently bound
up with the "new rites and rituals". Much of what we do in digital
technology is no more than a new cult, more or less arbitrary in its
form but still fulfilling the old religious negative functions -
distraction, domination, fealty, creating new sins and pleasures, new
rituals, new denominations and partitions on humanity. Of course Jung
and Freud said the same and went further. It doesn't merely fail to be
a rational and benevolent replacement for superstition, it threatens
much worse modes of failure. Unlike traditional religion technology is
not subject to the same constraints as stone churches, dusty books and
preachers. Zuckerberg's "Meta" is literally a Gnostic/Cosmist project
to create "Another Place" here on Earth. Because it has the potential
to create more and bloodier wars than religion ever could, we have a
solemn duty as hackers to steward it and think very carefully about
what we create. "Move fast and break things" is not apropos this
duty.
Nietzsche's parable of the Death of God is absolutely essential reading for all hackers. Pay very close attention to the exact words of the madman in the marketplace. Technology is very evidently bound up with the "new rites and rituals". Much of what we do in digital technology is no more than a new cult, more or less arbitrary in its form but still fulfilling the old religious negative functions - distraction, domination, fealty, creating new sins and pleasures, new rituals, new denominations and partitions on humanity. Of course Jung and Freud said the same and went further. It doesn't merely fail to be a rational and benevolent replacement for superstition, it threatens much worse modes of failure. Unlike traditional religion technology is not subject to the same constraints as stone churches, dusty books and preachers. Zuckerberg's "Meta" is literally a Gnostic/Cosmist project to create "Another Place" here on Earth. Because it has the potential to create more and bloodier wars than religion ever could, we have a solemn duty as hackers to steward it and think very carefully about what we create. "Move fast and break things" is not apropos this duty.