Timothy Leary once said “Everyone gets the god they deserve”. If “god” can be paraphrased as “highest collective ideal and hope of which we can only fulfill a part before we may realize that it’s someone else’s highest, most contrived ideal and hope and not one’s own”, do we really deserve such an ideal? Do we really need to satisfy the petty desires of an anthropomorphic, personified idea? And can ideas think for themselves?
