It strikes me that one thing our advanced technology is allowing is the overlaying of the symbolic tropes that underlie our experience of the world onto our material experience of the world in ever more immediate and terrifying ways. This is especially true of things seen via the medium of screens and in our movies, where we get to see h…
It strikes me that one thing our advanced technology is allowing is the overlaying of the symbolic tropes that underlie our experience of the world onto our material experience of the world in ever more immediate and terrifying ways. This is especially true of things seen via the medium of screens and in our movies, where we get to see human beings inhabit worlds otherwise materially unrealizable. Eventually, whether via the integration of our conscious mind with the machine or via some sort of digital interface which interacts in real time with our experience of physical reality, the goal seems to be to completely mediate humanity’s experience of the world through some symbolic medium. There is a dual tendency here, because we can both imagine heaven and imagine hell (and imagine heaven as hell and hell heaven) and to that end we can overlay our experience in ways both captivating beautiful and unbelievably ugly. It seems we have chosen to manifest demonic ugliness, and we become ever more ugly and demonic the more we interact with it.
It strikes me that one thing our advanced technology is allowing is the overlaying of the symbolic tropes that underlie our experience of the world onto our material experience of the world in ever more immediate and terrifying ways. This is especially true of things seen via the medium of screens and in our movies, where we get to see human beings inhabit worlds otherwise materially unrealizable. Eventually, whether via the integration of our conscious mind with the machine or via some sort of digital interface which interacts in real time with our experience of physical reality, the goal seems to be to completely mediate humanity’s experience of the world through some symbolic medium. There is a dual tendency here, because we can both imagine heaven and imagine hell (and imagine heaven as hell and hell heaven) and to that end we can overlay our experience in ways both captivating beautiful and unbelievably ugly. It seems we have chosen to manifest demonic ugliness, and we become ever more ugly and demonic the more we interact with it.