Saturday, March 16
Red Rock Eater Digest - The Return of Antimasonism in American Political Life
I got that feeling again this afternoon. For the last few months,
in amongst my official duties, I have been reading the literature on
apocalytic social movements. I was originally inspired in this by David
Noble's book "The Religion of Technology". Noble observes, for example,
that many of the important early engineers, particularly in the United
States, were Masons, and he describes the development of a particular
kind of millennialism -- or at least a secularized form of religious
utopianism -- among engineers that became secularized and formed the
outlines of technical movements such as artificial intelligence and --
he might as well have added -- cyberspace.
