tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post5379934588939098429..comments2024-02-13T12:50:30.457-05:00Comments on Rants Within the Undead God: Ancient and Modern Enlightenment: from Noosphere to TechnosphereBenjamin Cainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-81386545583046424252014-01-03T09:33:58.553-05:002014-01-03T09:33:58.553-05:00Yeah, there are romantics, neo-luddites, anarchist...Yeah, there are romantics, neo-luddites, anarchists, and what Terence McKenna called archaic revivalists. Here, I mean to describe some historical transitions, without judging whether they were good or bad. I'm planning a follow-up article comparing the mythopoeic worldview with postmodern consumerism, and there I'll inevitably condemn the latter. I suppose I see the technosphere as just another Nietzschean challenge, as a temptation and a separator of the enlightened elite from the deluded and exploited rabble. We have to adapt to our environment, but there are better and worse ways of doing so, aesthetically speaking.Benjamin Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661999592897690031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320802302155582419.post-64503147325230021142014-01-02T14:08:27.989-05:002014-01-02T14:08:27.989-05:00Interesting, Benjamin.
There are people in this w...Interesting, Benjamin.<br /><br />There are people in this world today, anarcho-primitives, who believe we need to return to the paleolithic era, that the great sin WAS agriculture. Brian Mnoreply@blogger.com