Owing to their Social Credit System, the Chinese are devising moral codes for citizens to follow. These codes are accompanied by digitized monitoring and categorizing of individuals, according to how well they behave. This makes it easy for Chinese authorities to discern who is unfit for positions in government, corporate offices, heavy equipment operations, or traffic-flagging. They may want to think about coupling all this with DNA encoding in order to streamline two components of human behavior—sexual and moral. If they can succeed at this, they will be taking a heavy load off God’s hands. At the same time, a lot of would-be parents will have a greater hand in how their kids turn out. There will be no niggling second-guessing of God in this. So God will hear far fewer complaints.
Those who are “liking” our human imaginations better than God’s, will be thinking about hopping on a jet to China, and thus additionally elevating Chinese DNA-enhancing tourism. There are so many pluses to their programs that it’s hard to find flaws. Nevertheless, I recommend trying. As with second guessing God, it’s always good to second-guess officials.
The key to technological developments during these moments of cultural succession is the sheer thrill of trying to outdo God. Once we humans found it hard to believe that God knew the number of hairs under our armpits, or that God just saw my covert move against my neighbor, or that God was aware of the thoughts and intentions of my human heart. In our current techno transitioning, now aided by artificial intelligence, all that unbelief has been replaced by the certainty of Google Analytics and Amazon Algorithmic. These platforms know all about every individual human. So it’s OK now to believe God does too.
Not only have these corporate giants done wonders in merchandising us, they have increased our faith. We now believe that it’s possible for God to know these things about us because X, AdSense, and Meta know all this about each of us. Whereas once this idea of being thoroughly known was disconcerting and unbelievable, we are now content and even happy to find it true.
But one question remains. Do we really need God? Is it possible that, through the past six millennia, Hebraic wisdom and the West have just been making God up because a need was perceived, a need to believe in these undiscovered facets of our being—?
Perhaps “God” was a Placeholder until our governments and corporations could evolve enough to show us these truths about ourselves—in everyday social media reality. After my series of intellectual studies on sex, I might say yes, Placeholder.
I would, were it not for the fact that techno reality has been shown to have some basis in Reality.
*number of hairs under our armpits
**saw my covert move against my neighbor
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