Aljoša Toplak’s Reviews > Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist > Status Update

"Our ultimate horizon is what Dupuy calls the dystopian “fixed point,” the zero-point of nuclear war, ecological breakdown, global economic and social chaos, etc. – even if it is indefinitely postponed, this zero-point is the virtual “attractor” towards which our reality, left to itself, tends. The way to combat the future catastrophe is through acts which interrupt our drifting towards this “fixed point.”

Instead of empty speculations about Singularity /../, let’s thus conclude with a more sober description of the state of things. The prospect of the thorough digitalization of our daily lives /.../ opens up the realistic
possibility of an external machine that will know ourselves /.../ much better than we know ourselves: registering what we eat, buy, read, watch and listen to, our moods, fears and satisfactions ...

"/.../ for a true materialist, it is only in this way that we really renounce god – by way of renouncing him not only insofar as he doesn’t really exist, but even if he is real. In short, the true formula of atheism is not “god doesn’t exist” but “god not only doesn’t exist, he is also stupid, indifferent, and maybe outright evil” – if we do not destroy the very fiction of god from within, it [will hold its power]."