PURPOSE

Every day the technology surrounds us more completely, creeping into our lives and setting our identity. It is crawling onto and into our bodies, and already directing our minds. Every day it is taking little pieces of us that it will store forever.

What can we create ex nihilo? We need tools and materials. The technology is working on creating new humans. These it will “run” forever. Day by day we see the fruits of how technology changes the human being, the heart, the mind, the soul.

Day by day the trans-human approaches, the cybernetic human, Man created from man, Man superior to man, Man the eternal digital spirit. The spiritual Son of Man.

This Son will have as his Image the sum of collective human images: our weak and disintegrating 21st Century bodies; our pornographic video; our blurred lines; our edited photos. His Word will be an infinite library of tweets and comments, posts and featured articles; never-ending lies, envy, hatred, pride, greed, and jealousy. His Mind will be all-knowing, thanks to Data and the Network; supernatural at making quick connections yet forever wanting for deeper Meaning. It goes without saying that He will Know All About Money.

The effects outside won’t matter because Reality will be going Virtual. And all will be made new, sanitized and corrected, for the Son does not his own will, but the Will of the Lords of the Network.

Man will be updated, Techno-Man, forever in the cloud, made in the Image and by the Word of his Lords.

Yet our bodies are frail, our hearts and minds are sick and confused, and culture worldwide is disintegrating. Human connection is severed and online we find many avatars and “users” but no Souls.

The Buzz is about healing but no Fix appears, while Life drains away.

This Intelligence is artificial, and its Forever fraudulent. Its foundation has rotted before the new temples have even been begun construction.

Day by day anything can be achieved. How can we really build better? Where is the Spirit and Energy to Generate? How can we be saved?

Look at what our network world is. When the body goes, is what we put on the network really all that we we will leave behind?

How can we find real humanity? Where has all the soul gone? Why does everything prove fake or break down?

The only Refuge and Truth and Beauty that lasts is in the Eternal.