The Machine Universe Verse Metaphor

The left is a machine universe verse metaphor fundamentally outside of the few bits of it that I still like. And so when the stuff you're talking about in a need for cults, I kind of think about if you kept someone trapped in a basement for the first five years of their lives and only fed them Doritos. They'll eat the Doritos because they don't know that that's basically not food. The UFO mania has always been but certainly at the moment it's more obvious. Someone who is hungry for contact with the upper realms eating the DoritOS. It's like, yeah, it's still fucking food. Same thing with all of that. Like I