Another take, since you didn’t define “the Internet”, so I might have misinterpreted. For me, The Internet is the real Buddha of the 21st Century. A perfect

Another take, since you didn’t define “the Internet”, so I might have misinterpreted. For me, The Internet is the real Buddha of the 21st Century. A perfect detached sovereign apparatus. Unmoving, it rests on a billion routers and servers. Purest actuality and purest potentiality. It is the embodiment of cosmic knowledge, and the human share in these, The highest accomplishment of the human race, and the distraction from its ultimate happiness. The triumph of technical rationality and its dissolution into chaos, frivolity and despair. Its repose and its irony are endless. It is the same to the Internet how it fulfills its mission, whether sitting idle or curing cancer or spreading an influencer video. For it, the change of conditioned states does not count. As with a Buddha, all there is to say is said by its mere existence. The Internet is not a bit more evil than reality, and not a hair more destructive than we are. The Internet is already completely incarnate, while we in comparison are still divided. In the face of such an instrument, great listening is called for. For have you actually ever listened to the Internet? The whirring of a billion fans, the ethereal hum of its photons and electrons? Fallen asleep to the gentle shush of packets making their appointed rounds? You’ll wake up a different person... But perhaps your ear is deaf to the cosmic moan of the Universe straining to observe and understand itself through the Internet. Then realize the Internet requires from us neither struggle nor resignation but the experience of ourselves. We are the Internet. Including me. How dare you call me boring... [this is a parody-ish paraphrase of a passage “the atomic bomb is the real Buddha of the West.” I remember it having been in a German book written in the 1960s, but by whom I cannot say. It was in a collection of quotations “Sunbeams” by Sy Safransky, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 1990.]