The point of comparison is mathematical perfection and purity. In order for these to be achieved whatever is being considered has to be removed from reality.
One way is to have it die. This is how technical culture is inhuman and a false realization of the puritanical goals of perfection, idealization and otherworldliness.
Nothing is good enough. They want to dispense with the messiness of biological existence and the uncertainty of style and the annoyance of anything not technical.
But experientially much of life is like looking at a mini-monster, a gargoyle, from twelve inches away. Most systems are only perfect or attractive or harmonious from a distance.
Faith, typically, enabled people to think that the ugliness is part of a larger thing of beauty. Geeks are frustrated by this, wanting abstract purity where there is wretchedness.
Geek brains work in proximity and by minutiae, the molecular perfection of the parts. But perfect parts can add up to monstrosities at a macrocosmic level, where we all live.
So woe to those who don't care about the macrocosm.
Empowered geeks will not be thwarted and refused. They will bring the world to heel somehow, in their heads, making it intelligible on narrow, Cartesian terms.
Give them a little money and they have delusions of grandeur and magnificence.
People can suffer and die and it's a video game to them. Irrationality, privilege and exclusion are then in command. If you aren't an insider your life is nothing to them.
This is the sociopathic, narcissistic, money-culture of Silicon Valley.
In their fantasy worlds they are powerful and have a babe and don't have to work much, relating to the fantasy worlds of Republicanism and Libertarianism and Trumpism.
And it relates to the chosen world of the evangelicals, a fantasy-land of the "saved."
Not to mention Roger Ailes and hate media, whose fiefdoms function efficiently in the creation of mini-hells. Outsiders can fuck-off and fly as long as Ailes and his ilk live well.
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