The fetishism of complexity in engineering (and our machine loving culture) is much like the fetishism of helplessness in some of our religions. Both intensely

The fetishism of complexity in engineering (and our machine loving culture) is much like the fetishism of helplessness in some of our religions. Both intensely value surrender to an unknowable omnipotent power. A power addressable only by blind ritual. You might say that in both cases there is a longing for a dissolution of self. Or death even. Is the machine-lover a death-lover?