Modern people pay for their faith with one strange price — an almost complete absence of self-observation.
They consider themselves rational, efficient, and fully in control of their own lives, yet remain possessed by forces beyond their control.
Their demons and gods — and they are identical — have not disappeared. They have merely received new names.
Now they live in anxiety, in vague inner unrest, in psychological difficulties, in an insatiable pull toward medication, alcohol, tobacco, food, and in that vast mass of neuroses that people have long grown used to calling simply life.
They still serve the same forces. They simply do it now without candles, without an altar, and with good internet — unless even that is forbidden entirely...
