The technology isn’t consciously revolutionizing society, so much as pushing the old assumptions to the breaking point. Monotheism would be an obvious example, of being more energized and empowered by the technology, as questioned by it and even those questions fall along avenues of debate laid down long before the technology came along.
I may have linked this previously, but here is my own amateur effort to draw out a big picture analysis;
In a nutshell, we are linear, goal oriented creatures, in a cyclical, feedback driven reality, so we are constantly chasing after signals in the noise, from heaven to money, losing sight of the fact the noise we so cavalierly discard is the context for those signals.
It’s more a yin and yang of nodes and networks, energy and form, desire and judgement, heart and head, liberal and conservative, than a God Almighty of whatever ideal we seek. So the two sides are simply in conflict, rather than seeing the larger whole.
Those with the power to affect change have acquired it by being singularly goal oriented, whether to collect money, or rise to the top of their department, so there are serious Catch 22’s to acknowledging the dynamic.
Personally I’m more motivated by the details of my own life and physical being, because I long ago recognized the strings attached to everything and the infinite causality, both above and below myself, so to the extent I try to voice these opinions and observations, it is to those with similar objectivity and that appears rare.
We are all the center point of our view of the entire universe, but connecting to it requires a finely tuned sense of equilibrium.
