religion as a form of control after a technological singuarity
(Philosophy)Something that's really been bothering me for the last few years is how strangely cultish both the radicals and the elites in our society have been becoming. Odd religious practices and symbolisms, apocalyptic imagery, attacks on mainstream religions of all sorts, etc. It's been sticking in my mind for a while.
Then I got in a discussion with a friend of mine regarding, of all things, info that came in on Reddit. Interesting content despite the source.
https://archive.ph/5apLpI opined that John Maynard Keynes wasn't really evil, even though his work has served as a basis for a lot of it. We went from that to Marx, and I brought up how both of them were addressing the point that the workforce was steadily requiring fewer people to accomplish the same tasks based on increasing technology. I said that Keynes admitted no solution and proposed patchwork to keep a crisis from turning deadly, and waiting for the economy to recover on its own, and that the only real end to the problem he proposed would be what both he and Marx were pointing at, a technological singularity.
She then brought in the Rothschilds influencing both of them. I said I was sure the Rothschilds were using their philosophies for their own purposes, but that they wouldn't want a technological singularity, since when everything is free, money is worthless and they'd lose all their power.
Then I started thinking of ways they'd try to keep their power that didn't involve money, and the only somewhat-reliable thing that would work is religion. Either infiltrating existing ones or creating new ones, and I suspect they're doing both. Even with no one needing to work there are a large number of people who are willing to listen to religious authority figures. Combining neurolinguistics into the mix would generate plenty of followers and allow them to establish dynasties around them.
