JulietteBrainfart:
Shouldn't every single religious person who believes in an "all seeing God" be up in arms against #BigTech and its surveillance capitalism ?
After all, that's the prerogative of their God, not of humans....
Jaime Martinez@jrf_nl Well, that's what Neil Gaiman wrote about in American Gods right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods
@jmslbam It's been a while since I read American Gods (probably a good 25 years), but in my memory, that was not what that book was about.
More, the opposite (similar to Pratchett's Small Gods) - Gods get their power from people believing in them. The fewer people believe, the less power and influence a god has.
While my remark was aimed at the billion(s) or so people on this earth who do currently believe in an "all seeing God".
Or is my memory seriously faulty ?
@jrf_nl No, you're totally correct on both books. I was more referring to the fact that Technology is being seen as "the new gods". And that the old Gods are fighting the new Gods. Not the believers as your were referring to.
I really enjoyed Small Gods btw, had put that books off for quite a while but it became one of my favorites of the Disc World.... but I haven't read a Disc book that I didn't like 😄