A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
Against Decay
We live in a decaying system, which in turn produces ideologies of decay to justify its existence.
No matter what cultural signifiers they get packaged with, these ideologies come down to the same material result: a future in which for the average person there is less of everything. To paraphrase Mark Fisher, we find it easier to imagine the decline of civilization than to imagine a civilization worth living in.
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
Ther is no tool that is not also a weapon; and no human that would wield it as one.
Is it possible that on some level, people want to believe that everything's going to get worse? That it's comforting to think that humanity is bad and every solution will just go wrong? Because that way, you're never responsible. You never have to take on responsibility for anything outside yourself and never have to grow up.
User tried to make changes to their own device settings which could result in an infinite regress and/or omnipotence. There is only room for one god around here.
When you are asked, "Where is God? Who is God?" stand up and say, "I am God and here is God, not as yet completed, but still advancing towards completion, just in so much as I am working for the purpose of the universe, working for the good of the whole of society and the whole world, instead of merely looking after my personal ends."
Identity has no meaning without society, and society has no meaning without the individual.
