As did speech, writing and printed text, electronic media are transforming what it means to be human, what kinds of gods we are likely to worship. Gods, that was, not God. God is always God, and God is with us, out here in the rain, getting wet. In the digital world, Nietzsche's questions are more urgent than ever. Never mind that he asked them long ago.
Civilizations take lots of bullets and walk dead for a long time before they fall.
Some treat the digital world as if it is an umbrella, as if simulations can be more than an umbrella, as if they can be stitched together into an ark. The digital world is water, a rising tide, a tsunami impacting our consciousness with revolutionary force, levelling our villages, sweeping away our shrines and altars, sweeping everything, everything out to sea. Indeed, my friends.