The War of the Ghosts and Machines Quotes

“The West is dying because of its cynicism, scepticism,
agnosticism, atheism, nihilism, liberalism, political correctness, scientific materialism and capitalism – which all go together as a dreadful, despairing, grim vision of a soulless universe devoid of any value and purpose whatsoever. The West is nothing but a “dark
Satanic mill”, as Blake put it.

As Nietzsche said, we must revalue all values. We can only beat mad religions by replacing them with better, more rational religions ... and that’s exactly what Illuminism provides.

The West will fail totally unless it can regain its spirit, and that means finding religion again, but this time Logos rather than Mythos religion. Forget the old Gods. Humans themselves are the new Gods ... if
they did but know it! Nietzsche said that God is dead. It’s time for him to be reincarnated ... in us!”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines

“We want to be transparent and yet not to be touched. We do and don’t want our private space. What prompts the Glass Delusion? – a tension between embracing the world and fleeing from it, from wanting to be part of it and wanting to be separated from it.”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines

“The West is dying because of its cynicism, scepticism, agnosticism, atheism, nihilism, liberalism, political correctness, scientific materialism and capitalism – which all go together as a dreadful, despairing, grim vision of a soulless universe devoid of any value and purpose whatsoever. The West is nothing but a “dark Satanic mill”, as Blake put it.

As Nietzsche said, we must revalue all values. We can only beat mad religions by replacing them with better, more rational religions ... and that’s exactly what Illuminism provides.

The West will fail totally unless it can regain its spirit, and that means finding religion again, but this time Logos rather than Mythos religion. Forget the old Gods. Humans themselves are the new Gods ... if they did but know it! Nietzsche said that God is dead. It’s time for him to be reincarnated ... in us!”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines

“Humanity has dehumanised itself and now sees itself in purely machine terms … from which terrible consequences are flowing. Humanity progressively sees itself in machinelike terms in the belief that this would solve all of our problems, but, in fact, it has simply made them worse.”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines

“The war of the ghosts and the machines is the war between mathematics and science. There can be only one winner – mathematics. Dimensionless mathematics is the noumenal ghost at the heart of the dimensional, phenomenal, scientific machine.”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines