A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
Miranda
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.
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The honest philosopher is rewarded with poison; the hypocrite is rewarded with power.
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."
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.
God appears, and God is light,
to those poor souls who well in night,
but does a human form display,
to those who dwell in realms of day.