A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
The New Theology
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."
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
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.
The beauty of the universe and the beauty of what we can accomplish within it are two related but separate things, and the separation matters.
1K: There will always be user error.
Melville: I think I could idiot proof this thing... but I do take your point. Pellegrino once almost killed himself with a bucket.
The honest philosopher is rewarded with poison; the hypocrite is rewarded with power.
Identity has no meaning without society, and society has no meaning without the individual.
