Bill makes this very astute point about Zizek on Buddhism:
"he glosses the buddhist prayer wheel as the precursor of canned laughter. the wheel prays even though the person who placed it is absent from it
it's an object praying"
Exactly. Exactly why I think Buddhism is dope. And what I'm arguing in two books and a couple of essays on the topic.
It's a fear of automation. Again, these Marxists are Romanticist Nature people really.
Did you know that, back in the days when industrial robotics was just getting started, Japanese workers would conduct a Shinto ritual to welcome their new robotic co-worker to the plant floor?
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