It is exactly the role religions used to play - more so in the past, yes, but still pretty much in scene today still, although perhaps weaker - so this answer y

It is exactly the role religions used to play - more so in the past, yes, but still pretty much in scene today still, although perhaps weaker - so this answer your question: > Why does it do both? Demand. For what? For adaptation to the current metagame. While writing this reply, I remembered a few passages from a great thinker, that I think may contribute and expand the conversation, for those interested: "Art, ethics, philosophy bear witness: under the crust of words and concepts, the living reality of non-adaptation to the world is always crouched, ready to spring. Since neither gods nor words can manage to cover it up decently any longer, this commonplace creature roams naked in railway stations and vacant lots; it confronts you at each evasion of yourself, it touches your elbow, catches your eye; and the dialogue begins." [0] "After all, if an individual refuses both to adapt to the violence of the world, and to embrace the violence of the unadapted, what can he do? If he doesn't raise his will to achieve unity with the world and with himself to the level of coherent theory and practice, the vast silence of society's open spaces will raise around him the palace of solipsist madness." [1] "People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away. Time is the work of attrition of that adaptation to which people must resign themselves so long as they fail to change the world." [2] Raoul Vaneigem 0, 1: https://www.darkmatterarchives.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Vaneigem.pdf https://www.darkmatterarchives.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/0... 2: https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-Revolution-of-Everyday-Life-by-Raoul-Vaneigem.pdf https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-Revolu...