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If we delete first sentence of your post and leave only > People are too willing to give up their responsibility of critical thought to some kind of omnipotent
by yetihehe 4y ago
If we delete first sentence of your post and leave only
> People are too willing to give up their responsibility of critical thought to some kind of omnipotent messiah figure.
This essentially describes humans probably since before we became homo sapiens. We again and again choose into positions of power those who can look competent instead of actual competent people.
- LesZedCB 4y agoi wish somebody would write an entire science fiction series about this! maybe set on a desert planet, after humanity made the same mistake with intelligent machines as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
- CatWChainsaw 4y ago"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hopes that it would set them free. But that only allowed other men with machines to control them."