For the Love of (Being) an Unnamable Omni-being.

I was slow to post this one, but I've been slow to post, simpliciter. What's so important that I'd actually break from my derangement induced silence to (minimally) comment on? Simple: the potential for cool new ways to play god. I genuinely enjoy the idea of being able to fumble about with the code that underpins just what it means to be created in the image of an omni-being. Sure, our code, by virtue of being a cheap mimeograph copy, is finite and flawed to the point of being illegible, but that funky blue ink will still get you high. And besides, "playing god" (i.e. the nasty, horrible, blasphemous act of expanding human knowledge in the pursuit of truth) is precisely what we ought to do. That way we can all finally have something in common with the evangelicals: secular humanists will be able to play at being the very thing that fundamentalists of every vein have used for centuries as a means of dehumanization and projection. Well, I guess we could talk about our love of virtual violence.

Anyway, enough abject stereotyping; they's talk nnn'stuff real good for themselfs:

Go ahead...watch...you know you want to...


And a full documentary (50-odd minutes) from our friends across the pond:


What's that quote again? You know: the famous one that gets people all in an uproar and causes average Americans to spontaneously assert that they have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the political history of China and the other countries no red-blooded patriot should ever choose in a game of Risk. Seems like it was something about needing masses of opium to make sense of religion...