Intuitive Inklings 2: On Technology and Demonology
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke
“And whoever is blinded from remembrance of the Most Merciful - We appoint for him a devil, and he is to him a companion.”
— Quran 43:36 —
Consider the following quote from Marshal McLuhan’s Understanding Media:
By putting our physical bodies inside our extended nervous systems, by means of electric media, we set up a dynamic by which all previous technologies that are mere extensions of hands and feet and teeth and bodily heat-controls-all such extensions of our bodies, including cities-will be translated into information systems. Electromagnetic technology requires utter human docility and quiescence of meditation such as befits an organism that now wears its brain outside its skull and its nerves outside its hide. Man must serve his electric technology with the same servo-mechanistic fidelity with which he served his coracle, his canoe, his typography, and all other extensions of his physical organs. But there is this difference, that previous technologies were partial and fragmentary, and the electric is total and inclusive. An external consensus or conscience is now as necessary as private consciousness. With the new media, however, it is also possible to store and to translate everything; and, as for speed, that is no problem. No further acceleration is possible this side of the light barrier.
Clearly, McLuhan had foreseen what is currently transpiring.
Consider, furthermore, what the american computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil said about the question of God:
Does God exist? Well, I would say, ‘not yet.’
Prometheus unbound? Such Promethean views epitomise the guiding spirit of modern transhumanist ‘rationalist‘ technocrats…
In relation to these Promethean movers and shakers of our world, David Icke, widely considered to be deranged, said the following:
Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.
Such ramblings may seem schizo to many. But they seem to me to be not that far away from the truth. In fact, as someone like Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad suggests in one of his contentions quoted below, David Icke may actually be underestimating the depth of the rabbit hole!
David Icke defames lizards.
—Abdal Hakim Murad, Contentions 21:99
Further Resources to Consult:
The Human As An Automaton with James Tunney:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double and Demons.
Painting by Sr. Safia Latif: (Very cool to reflect upon) https://x.com/safialatif/status/1651693822601211913
That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis