“There is a lot that is absurd nowadays. Most of it leads to pain, destruction or both. We are afraid to speak for ourselves, so we hire and elect others to do it for us. In turn, they are afraid to fight so they hire us to make war. We are afraid to stand alone so we create cliques. We are afraid of age and death, so we masque ourselves in youth. We are afraid to think and make mistakes, so we create AIs and accept them as the gods we are afraid to be.”