Also, damn, it’s a bit of a jolt to encounter someone who thinks of the world’s course in the same Gnostic terms that I often entertain. I too have been associating the spectre of anti-religious, anti-ideological, technocratic tyranny that’s haunting us with the supposed iron “logic”, runaway reductionism and blind hubris of the Archons, as relayed by the ancients and by latter-day SF visionaries like Dick.
(All aboard! We’re off for −10 rating in 3… 2… 1...)
Also, damn, it’s a bit of a jolt to encounter someone who thinks of the world’s course in the same Gnostic terms that I often entertain. I too have been associating the spectre of anti-religious, anti-ideological, technocratic tyranny that’s haunting us with the supposed iron “logic”, runaway reductionism and blind hubris of the Archons, as relayed by the ancients and by latter-day SF visionaries like Dick.
(All aboard! We’re off for −10 rating in 3… 2… 1...)
Given how deeply this comment is buried in an old thread I’d be surprised if 10 people even read it.
Oh, don’t worry, dude, you can simply make nine or so new accounts to make up for it. ;)