Materialist Rhetoric: The Cosmic Indifference of Alien AI Gods

This week, I am selecting vocabulary used by materialists to reveal their long game. Materialism here refers loosely to those who subscribe to secular and scientific values, that is, those who explore the world through the strictly physical. I deconstruct some materialist values here, not to write an anti-scientific or technophobic screed, but to consider alternative approaches toward science and technology. I mean to show here that what we think of as'rationalism,' 'secularism,' 'materialism,' 'science,' and'technology' are social constructions, grounded in obsolete, 19th and 20th century modernist concepts of order and madness. I will discuss this historical background and alternatives to these concepts in future posts.