Thank you. Ever read Thus Spoke Zarathustra? What you were listening to today sounds like a modern take on Nietzsche's thesis in that.
Instead it’s a twisted religion that is technocracy and their obsession with trying to cheat death and control others to make them die instead. It’s a wild concoction.
If you swap out technocracy for aristocracy in that sentence it would just as accurately describe the situation a thousand years ago, back when folks most certainly still feared the gods. Makes me suspect it has less to do with fear and more to do with a subset of humanity's fondness for setting up systems of control and oppression.
Yeah, there always seems to be a group of people who are hell bent on fucking with people and causing pain and suffering. It's pretty vile. I can't comprehend what drives someone to be that way, but there's a lot of things at play.