Grumblenuts
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..instead of extending the lesson forward to the internet, go back.• Technology, according to Nawaz, disrupts power structures. "What happened when they invented the printing press? The power structures who up until that moment were reading the Bible for you and were telling you that you will pay this priest x amount of favors and he'll forgive you your sins. And that became a bribery system which is what Martin Luther was so upset about when he pinned his thesis to the wall. The printing press disrupted that power dynamic because people could read the Bible for themselves and they began realizing the power structures were manipulating what was written to control people. Now
religions?"What happened when they invented
getting lackeys to beat everyone into submission who resisted their rule. Having the rabble submit willingly by developing fictitious belief systems based upon fear of gods. These gods could later be painted as unimaginably beneficent, loving, and forgiving, but could easily handle the bulk of reward and punishment duties necessary to keep those deemed disposable in their place regardless.The power structures who up until that moment were