They may be unaffiliated with formal religions, but that doesn't mean they aren't religious or are more connected to reality. Plenty of people I know who aren'

They may be unaffiliated with formal religions, but that doesn't mean they aren't religious or are more connected to reality. Plenty of people I know who aren't affiliated with a church of some kind think just as mystically as formally religious folks, sometimes even more so. I believe that the new global religion isn't even politics per se, as others have pointed to. It is a religion of the promise of technological intervention. Why waste time with diet and exercise when technology will cure obesity and diabetes in my lifetime? Why waste time cultivating relationships in real life when the Metaverse is right around the corner? Why waste time worrying about having a family and kids when life extension and artificial wombs will be invented in my lifetime? Why waste time going out when technology will soon allow me to never leave my home again? Why waste time working hard when UBI is right around the corner and inevitable? Why waste time read scripture when our digital existence will make morality irrelevant?