...What we are talking about here is not blasphemy but trivialization, against which there can be no laws. In Technopoly, the trivialisation of significant cultural symbols is largely conducted by commercial enterprise. this occurs not because corporate America is greedy but because the adoration of technology pre-empts the adoration of anything else. Symbls that draw their meaning from traditional religious or national contexts must therefore be made impotent as quickly as possible - that is drained of sacred or even serious connotations. The elevation of one god requires the demotion of another...
Technopoly, p165
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