God/Art, nihilism and why nostr will beat Twitter with #[0] https://fountain.fm/episode/14822371026
Discussion
Would be interesting to put the transcript for this convo into chatgpt to see the sources for things cited, lots of words that couldnt be thought of. Im going to research what stood out to me and post it on the AVN if #[1] wants to come visit us there šš¤·āāļø
this was a nice cast - I'll think a bit on the "In a godless society, technology gets nefarious pretty quickly." I wonder if it's also the absence of philosophy?
In fairness technology always has the potential to be used negativity but without a sense of morality and denying the essence of humanity Iām concerned for how we value human life. Philosophy helps but often points to a god in some sense like Platonism or the Tao. And a lot of philosophy is built on Christian culture which is being stripped away.
I think I agree - in some ways, technology strips away religion first or its main tenets, there's some destruction, an exodus of sorts, and a new myth or meme or belief takes hold of a society. Strong religious memes are important to most societies. Roman Catholic as an "urban religion" (it was a religion brought to a city that was falling apart due to technological advancement and decadence - out with the pagans, in with the new...), and then it spread in new ways.