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Clavicular says he doesn’t like doing ANYTHING anymore except sitting in his house and rotting 😳 “I hate doing anything to be honest with you… I don’t like anything, I like to sit in my house all day and do nothing… That means rotting is that good if I’d rather do that than make millions, I’d rather rot…”

The wrangling on Twitter over the proper approach to the Greek and Roman Classics seems to me like a fight between the old humanistic view as exemplified by Petrarch and the “new” scientific philology of Wilamowitz.

What’s so fitting about the triumph of Backrooms over Mandalorian is that Kane Parsons and Will Soodnik have turned this online legend into a parable about the ugliness of remake culture. It’s funny that the Backrooms trend predates the AI boom, because in many ways it embodies some of the uncanny horror that AI slop can stir in us. But in other ways Backrooms is about deeper trends of which slop is just one symptom. Others include therapy culture, the remake glut, and our obsession with nostalgia. Now a new generation of content creators, who never lived through the periods we all yearn for, are exposing our nostalgia as the Baudrillardian grotesquery it is. So I argue for @TheFP today:

It is striking that some of the deepest thinkers about society and technology have not been secular futurists or Silicon Valley skeptics but Christians, often Catholic. Marshall McLuhan, who taught us “the medium is the message,” was a devout Catholic (he attended Mass daily), whose faith shaped his entire media ecology. Ivan Illich, the radical priest and philosopher, warned of how our institutions and technologies can become disabling idols. Jacques Ellul, the Protestant theologian, dissected “Technique” as a totalizing, quasi-religious power that threatens human freedom. Michel Serres, in his final book on religion, returned to a lifelong concern with what binds human beings together in an age of fragmentation and information overload. And one of today’s leading critics of smartphone culture, burnout, and the “transparency society” is Byung-Chul Han, a self-described Catholic now being cited in papal documents. One could add Paul Virilio, the philosopher of speed and catastrophe, as yet another Christian voice on technology. I am a strong supporter of technological innovation as essential to prosperity and human advance. But perhaps it takes a sense of the sacred to see clearly what our machines can do to us, for good and for ill, and to remind us that we aren’t God. Technology should be for man, not man acting as servant to technology.

Genesis 6 describes the Nephilim as demonic hybrids who occupy positions of authority in human society. They’re entirely real, says Father Stephen De Young. 0:00 What Are the Nephilim? 3:40 The Advanced Civilization Before the Flood 12:14 Was Human Lifespan Longer Before the Flood Than It Is Now? 15:55 Was Technology Given to Us by Demons? 22:53 How Does Someone Become Demonized? 26:37 Gilgamesh and the Book of the Giants 36:38 Is Japan Still Producing Nephilim? 42:19 Why Did God Create Humanity? 46:09 Are the Nephilim Still Among Us? 53:36 The Ongoing Ritual of Human Sacrifice 59:11 Is There Fossil Evidence of Giants? 1:00:20 Who Is Goliath? 1:09:48 Epstein, AI, and the Destruction of the Earth 1:11:31 When Will Christ Return? 1:19:33 Why Every Civilization Is Centered Around Religion 1:21:40 The Gods of War and Money 1:23:08 How Should Christians Respond to War? 1:30:02 The Failures of Evangelical Christian Leadership 1:31:24 What Does It Mean to Truly Experience God's Work? 1:35:42 The Evils of Pornography 1:43:13 The One Unforgivable Sin