Modern human beings pay for their faith with one strange price — an almost complete absence of self-observation.
They consider themselves rational, efficient, and fully in charge of their own lives, while remaining possessed by forces outside their control.
Their demons and gods — and they are identical — have not disappeared. They have only received new names.
Now they live in anxiety, vague inner unrest, psychological complications, an insatiable pull toward pills, alcohol, tobacco, food, and the huge 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, if it is not banned altogether...
