Gods like income disparity, climate change, wage servitude, corporate slavery, overpopulation, degradation and destruction of the earth come to dominate and control every aspect of our lives because—having become disillusioned with gods (from Old Nobodaddy to the Olympian rogue’s gallery)—we thought mortals could do without gods and, quaintly, decided not to “believe” in them anymore. We call these new gods “intractable issues.”
Timid atheists, we have assigned the “solution” of these global “problems” to a legendary future, mirror image of a past Golden Age. Meanwhile the new gods—rogues and rascals like their parents—continue to thwart our plans for world domination.
The bat that flits at close of eve
Is from the brain that won't believe.
(
Auguries of Innocence)
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