/lit/ - Literature

>>15066471
The gods are not mere symbols though, there are often paradoxes in the myths, a deep irony. Prometheus gave us fire and insight, not technology in the modern sense. And, of course, it was cunning insight that allowed the gods to defeat the titans.
There is also plenty of evidence that the eyes of the technician are incapable of seeing gods, or even understanding the myths. As the other anon mentioned, worship of machines and workshops, nuclear power plants. The meme of Dyatlov almost suffices to explain this, there is an instrumentalism to modern thought which is quite opposed to any sort of religious thinking. The tragedy of the Titanic, and the hubris of machine beings.

Our relation to technology is anything but Promethean, it is precisely the opposite. Our technology has the form of fire, yet it is formless in its essence. At most we are mechanised slaves to fate.