Science fiction is the dominant religion of modernity. A lazy, wishful, and comforting extension of a default way of knowing about real things to a way of imagining nice things.
Older epochs of religion simply do that with less powerful default ways of knowing
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Polytheism is a religion based on extending the default way of knowing we think of as “agency” for example. Knowing-by-becoming. Explaining things in terms of the transformational desires of agenty things.
Monotheism is based on knowing-by-being.
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Polytheism deals with the conflict between Man and Nature. Monotheism’s domain in the conflict between Man and Society. Totally different apps.
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