Interview · moment 10 of 31
Technology as the New Religion
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #307 · #307
2 min
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Andrew argues technology/social currency has replaced religion as the operating belief system of society but offers nothing about the soul, leading to speculation about humanity uploading consciousness or sliding back into a new dark age.
- Technology has become our new religion, fulfilling the same role that traditional faith used to.
- You can't get a job, bank account, or participate in society without buying into the technological system.
- The technology religion offers nothing about the soul, the afterlife, or how to treat other people—just practical self-interest.
- Tim questions whether humanity can remain human or if we should accept the inevitability of uploading consciousness and abandoning the body.
- Civilization may be on the verge of collapse into another dark ages, a pattern that has probably occurred multiple times throughout human history.