The Unquestioned Worship of Technology; And The Wrath Of God

Throughout the Qur'an is the frequented phrase "walk throughout the land and see what became of those people's destroyed before you". There is also the notion of natural and supernatural destruction throughout history.

In modernity we have the notion that just because we've built some impressive technology, that we are somehow superior to those in the past or even "God-like". There is definitely a Faustian and Promethean notion to all of this.

Now we, in "modernity", come to take it for granted and accept that technology has now made us useless and that technology itself is our future, rather than ourselves.

As basically all the Postmodernist philosophers have noted, we are living in an age of disassociation. We collectively have no idea what we are anymore and our collective "brain" is guided by big tech corporations. Our place in society has been inverted to serve them, rather than each other.

Anyway, from here we find the whole Dystopian idea so consistent in modern scifi.

However as I mentioned the Qur'an, the referenced notions in the Qur'an, as well as the Quranic and Biblical lessons found in the Flood of Noah and in the Tower of Babel are so freaking universal I think. Both these stories, related to different time periods before Prophet Abraham (A.S.) are signs and warnings against this kind if Faustian/Promethean spirit which is so much at the heart of 'modern' people's minds these days.

It doesn't matter how sophisticated, how strange the technology we create is in the future, we will never be "gods". At some point the internet will cease to be because of some kind of natural disaster. We see floods and hurricanes all the time. Matter of fact we're in the middle of a plague at the moment.

These messages, are not pleasant but they are beautiful in how much they speak to the heart of our existence which modernity seeks to separate from us.

God's wrath and judgement is on everything we do, personally and as a collective planet. Our games and illusions we create for ourselves are only means of distraction, when we uphold these ideals that are contrary to our Fitrah, we are merely waiting for our own self-created demise. The rise of Nihilism (whether self-acknowledged militant nihilism or veiled through assumption) is a further testament. Within this idolatry of technology is a new form of self-hatred and existential self-sabotage.