An important discussion on our perilous technological time. Orthodox Christian Jonathan Pageau, Ph.D, writes, “This is my second conversation with Paul Kingsnorth. We talk about his brilliant substack, called The Abbey of Misrule, civilization and control, the power of the state and our technological systems, the matrix, politics, what it takes for communities to survive, our relationship to technology and how we should orient ourselves in the coming trials.”

— The writings of Jacques Ellul at Amazon

— Elon Musk? What’s Everybody so Happy For?

— Creepy technology “reading human emotions”

— Google’s DeepMind says it is close to achieving ‘human-level’ artificial intelligence – only needs to be scaled up
 

— See also, be it near or far: Thomist Josef Pieper (1954) on the Pseudo-Order and World Dominion of the AntiChrist

— And again…

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— Boys, girls, androgony and mental disorders