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Ep. 37: James Poulos: Digital Politics & Spiritual War

The Moral Imagination

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The Other Is Containing Us All

Gnosticism seems to be in some way a kind of permanent religious sensibility among human beings, you are apt to find Gnosticism. And these people who are trying to move us into a sort of cyborg theocracy are people with themselves a very old intellectual and spiritual pedigree in the West. These are ancient dreams. This is tower of Babel stuff. This is alchemy stuff. Even those who would just compute us into oblivion, they're still human beings and they're still drawing ultimately from human resources. I mean, ancient resources in humanity, not human resources, the corporate arm of control.

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