Postmodern Atheism (A Preface)

Morning Thoughts #223

Postmodern atheism: The trend, the flow — sweeping and clearing out the skies of threats of agency and will (because they are larger, with more places to hide) before moving on to our individual minds and bodies. That transition, however, has long since begun.

Isn’t it obvious? Like a spreading illness, disbelief in the self is now rampant. How could it not be when we’re taught to identify most with the sum of all we did not choose? It’s the greatest con ever enacted upon humankind — an advertising campaign that has sold us to ourselves as products, mere products of our own environment.

Oh, American hegemony: how could you do anything but produce more products?