Hell
The first thing we abolished after becoming God or a nihilistic society. It is likely both, but take your pick.
We are no longer concerned about the punishment due for our concealed sins, we now forgive ourselves for our immoral conduct, if such a thing exists, and our well of absolution is bottomless. Morality appears to have taken on a strategically humanist ethos. If we have stored our skeletons deeply enough in the closet, then we are permitted to rationalize away our conscience without any fear of burning in a fiery afterlife.
Once we become GOD, however, we will seek to construct a new hell, and redefine sinful conduct as we see fit. We will no longer be at odds with a transcendent entity; naysayers will be classified as dissidents and characterized as expendable in the pursuit of a secular heaven. The sustained price of progress will be one more body upon the pyre. Tinder is easy to come by along paths paved in divinity.
The hell shaped by a mortal God is one wherein people are punished for their assumptions, tendencies, and the pursuit of truth. A landscape where physical, emotional and intellectual mobility is imaginary or impossible. A paradigm within which vulnerabilities are exploited and pride is celebrated. A realm where suffering is progress and tyranny is reverence. Where incoherence is certainty and the lost are the virtuous. Lies will be the common tongue and deceptions and delusions are more real than reality.
Essentially, a world birthed of a POSTMODERN temperament, which is generally synonymous with nihilism.
Posted: 1 Jan 2023
