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But even they aren't powerful at all. They can't create a world where procreate wildly and guilty-free, knowing nothing bad and infinite interesting-ness will come to all your children.

That they're always fighting to save the world from some evil is the proof of their impotency. They can't just solve the problem and be gone. They have to stick around to do it again. That's not a God. That's a bad plumber with rolls of duct tape.

To be a God is to solve the Everything is Going to be Okay Even Though We're Doomed by changing it to: Everything is Going to be Okay Precisely Because We're Doomed, We Can't Do Anything About It.

It's being enslaved by aliens and being able to say: "This is Fine." truthfully and optimistically.

What powers humanity is the ability to say : "This is fine as it is, let's move on." without being stuck in the past. And you can't cut off from the past. You can only re-visit and de-knot them.

Trying to get past a pain in a way that doesn't revisit it only hides the knot harder and deeper. It tangles and winds deeper into every thought, tainting everything. That sharp pain in a known area now has become a dull ache in life.

Technology drains away life when it is used to distract us from facing our real problems. Games for example, are fake problems. Game addiction -> no children -> no humanity. Perhaps nerds were rightly picked on? Humanity Redcoats.

It's the same as a drug. Working in technology is like providing infrastructure in service of this drug producing machine. It seems slightly more moral b/c we assume people have an element of willpower and can't be hijacked by words and machine like chemicals can.

But they can... Every marketer knows this. So ethically... it 'IS' the same as knowingly contributing to the production of drugs that dull humanity?

You dull humanity by making people stupider. By assuming everyone is smart and shaming them for being stupid. By taking advantage of them for being stupid. I'm stupid. you're stupid. that rich guy is stupid, that scientist too.

Stupidity is what brought humanity here. It's the stupid decisions in the face of DOOMEDness that create the ability for humans to be conscious.

People make jokes about how stupid people have more children but it's just that they were much more optimistic about the future than the "smart" people. They in fact contributed something to humanity. That burst of optimism that carves out the future for one more lifetime.

So tldr. If smartness isn't used to solve conflict but exacerbate a difference so you can declare 'war' (e.g. giving them a credit card knowing they don't know math) for your own gain (quota) then smartness is being used to destroy humanity instead of serving it.

This is also good and within God's plan. Like dying leaves dropping in the Fall. Necessary to brave the winter. Necessary to bask in the glory of the harshness of winter viewed under God's light.