Dash on Nostr: I wish I could get excited about the Meta glasses. Life would be so much easier just ...

I wish I could get excited about the Meta glasses. Life would be so much easier just to join the state religion of Progress--to worship the machine. To take Star Trek as your prophecy. To accept the court history of the progressive ark from the "Dark Ages" to the "Enlightenment" as your founding myth. To participate in the public worship at Silicon Valley launch events. To tie one's sanctification and salvation to product upgrade release cycles. To see the end times as a merging of man and machine leading to an eternity of bliss in some kind of metaverse Second Life. But I just can't do it. I lost my faith and I can't get it back. And so now I'm the worst thing you can be in our society--I'm backwards. I'm not moving forward. I'm looking back. I'm like an iPhone 3 trying to morph back into a flip phone. I'm a deplorable, standing in the way of Human Progress. I'm an impediment to the Progressive Utopia. How long can the Saints of Progress allow my kind to exist? We do things like vote for Brexit and Trump. We save our money instead of consuming the latest tech and helping to grow GDP. We teach our children Bronze Age myths. To the Cult of Progress, of course we're a problem.