Divining the Dream Machine (Patreon)

Thomas reads an essay titled "Divining the Dream Machine: Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist" which he recently presented at an Orthodox Christian philosophy conference. Drawing heavily on the work of Paul Kingsnorth, Jasun Horsley, and Father Seraphim Rose, he attempts to identify a feedback loop between corrupted imagination and corrupted technology. Such a feedback loop is at the very heart of the anti-human religion of the future and is amplified by both the art form of filmmaking and the genre of science-fiction.