Solid write up man. I was just listening to something this morning and a lot of the crap we are Dealing with today is because people fear death more than anything whereas in the past, they feared god or their deity of choice. Instead it’s a twisted religion that is technocracy and their obsession with trying to cheat death and control others to make them die instead. It’s a wild concoction.
Thank you. Ever read Thus Spoke Zarathustra? What you were listening to today sounds like a modern take on Nietzsche's thesis in that.
If you swap out technocracy for aristocracy in that sentence it would just as accurately describe the situation a thousand years ago, back when folks most certainly still feared the gods. Makes me suspect it has less to do with fear and more to do with a subset of humanity's fondness for setting up systems of control and oppression.
Yeah, there always seems to be a group of people who are hell bent on fucking with people and causing pain and suffering. It's pretty vile. I can't comprehend what drives someone to be that way, but there's a lot of things at play.