[jonmc12]

The Enlightenment produced free speech and reasoning. Nietzsche said, "god is dead," but a lot of people said it before and after - because reasoning could not fill in the gap of a shared reality. Harari's Sapiens gives a good history; Hoffman's claim that "natural selection does not favor veridical perception" says you're pretty confused about what is actually going on wrt "truth"; Seth's "Being You" might help to understand what conscious beings are actually trying to do in relation "truth" and survival.

[gumballindie]

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.” said Dostoevsky. In this case, it would appear that some people desperatly want to worship software, and are assaulting society with their new religion. Let's stop at Nietzsche. Everything else is a waste of electrons.