Ahmed wrote:The dissemination of information plays an important role in the "runaway" of the machine, but this is not conceivable outside of a change of religion: the positivism of the Enlightenment reflects only the passage to a new religion, the " progress".
Indeed, as mentioned in another topic, belief systems are correlated to the energy flows that pass through them.
"Enlightenment" finally led to the principle of secularism, secularism which is in fact only the consequence of structural atheism.
Le monotheism not being able to subsist beyond a certain surface (with a ladle a cultural field of approximately 3 to 5 million km2 without which it is subdivided into competing sub-models), it is logical that the beginnings of globalization is to facilitate the atheism.
A society which dissipates such a level of energy is necessarily endowed with an important technology and it is in the sense that materialism appeared (it was also at this time that Marx wrote the capital).
This technological development is done in concert with the appearance of economism, the latter relegating other religions to the background.
Given the very high level of abstraction reached by our technological societies, it is now possible to promise miracles, miracles once fought by the defenders of scientific reductionism ...