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Correct.
I am an American, and I keep trying to explain to other Americans that nobody else is going to fucking care for 99% of our personal excuses, for all the details of why we are not right this very moment overthrowing our very obviously demented and evil, fascist dictatorship, which is in command of the most capable implement of devastation probably ever seen on the face of the planet.
My personal excuse is that I'm literally crippled and broke and actually can't physically do much, and I spent the last decade + warning everyone that somewhere like this was where we were headed if we didn't collectively pull our heads out of assess...
...but I entirely do not expect any sympathy or special consideration from any other country or its residents.
We had everything.
And it wasn't enough, we threw it away in for greed, overconfidence, and frankly just a lot of racism, hatred and ignorance, wanting to just really truly feel superior to ... some other kind or group of people.
We are a contemptible nation of idiot narcissist hypocrites.
Pariahs, a single generation after largely being viewed as heros.
Its truly pathetic.
Oh I've been rewatching that whole series, at least once a year, for around a decade now.
Same with the original Cosmos, a few other kind of similar gems.
Those were the kinds of things I tried, and failed, to inform other people of, why they were important.
Vast majority of people didn't care, told me I was overworrying and being catastrophic or conspiratorial.
...
Anyway, your user name.
God?
God was a dream a good government.
He fulfilled the innate social desire of humans to judge, and be judged. Without some way of fulfilling that desire, the cohesion of human groups is impossible.
God is a dream of order and purpose.
-- paraphrased/bastardized from the prototype AI Morpheus, Deus Ex, 2001.
We weren't any better societally with a collective agreement on God, from the history I've seen at least.
It's a fantastic scene in deus ex, though.
We will indeed soon have our new God, and we are indeed building it with our own hands.
What was it, a week ago, Joe Rogan is seriously positing the idea that... if Jesus came back, he'd come back as an AI?
The tech C suites clearly are already members of the AI-God cult, get ready for that kinda thing to get more and more common amongst us proles.
Cults tend proliferate in times of great change, hardship, and uncertainty, and quite literally, any half charismatic wacko can just make one up.