Atheism is so peachy keen, and clean, and cool, and far-out, and oh so innocent.
Reason; it's all based on reason.
Yeah, sure ....
Here is a great example of where Atheism, and Materialism, eventually take the individual, and society; to the philosophy of the Marquis De Sade.
There is nothing outside of humanity, that is better than humanity, or that can give constructive, life-affirming, guidance to humanity; so we are left with each other; collectively alone. Add a pinch of post-modernism, and even the mental, emotional, and "spirtual", dimensions of humanity, are jettisoned; we are empty inside, and standing on relativistic sand, so to speak.
As a result; there is nothing to prevent the basest forms of human behaviour from errupting forth. If there is no moral and ethical highground, then nothing remains but the beast.
Read the nightmarish non-fiction book, "The Saturated Self" written by a post-modernist, true believer. It is blueprint for social catastrophe, and in my opinion belongs on the same shelf with "Mein Kampf."
Read the materialisitic philosophical writings of the Marquis De Sade, and especially as they are expressed, through the speeches given by his mass murderess character, Clairwil.
The final end of the road for Aethism/Materialism is Sadism. The bored cyborgian Eternals of Kurzweilia, will eventually degenerate into practitioners of cruelty. Their atheism gives them a hollow, dead, meaningless, universe. So, fill up the empty days with situations right out of the vicious imaginings, of the Marquis De Sade. Why not?
Whole virtual worlds based on the stories, and novels, of Sade can be created with the super-computers, and each Eternal can be exquisitly tortured to virtual death, over, and over, again. Take turns being a masochist, or a sadist.
Maybe the bored, jaded, atheistic, Eternals, will build statues of Clariwil, Juliette, and the Marquis, out of carbon nanotube material.
If there are any sub-humans still alive, or original-humans rather, the Eternals could have a Sadean blast using them as torture material, for there fun and games.
I wouldn't be saying all this, if we were building our technological future with a religion of compassion, at it's center. But we are not.
At the core of the technological enterprise, and at the core of late-capitalism, is a cold, cruel, vacuous, heart, and they will only take us to oblivion, in one form, or another.
Edited by Casanova, 23 June 2003 - 05:41 AM.
