argumate:

kontextmaschine said: weird thing it’s like the avant garde realized they were beating them and that’s why they decided to join them. Did it myself and it still sounds odd.

I am disappoint.

(re:)

When I came to not only believe and assert that there were no effectual divinities but to actually alieve it I realized that far from undermining organized religion that only reinforced its terrible power. Like you could grok these entities and their endurance and what they’ve done if there were supernatural forces behind them, but realizing that everything they’ve done - supervising empires and structuring daily life across continents, across millennia; bringing internal coherence and actual numinous spiritual presence to people’s lives - is purely human-powered, and entire systems like this have been rigged up and left to run for ages by people of about the level we talk to on this blue website, several times, almost constantly even.

It’s like realizing the humanities have been building nukes long before the sciences ever did, and there’s nothing stopping you, you know?