Against the Robots

There's no need to be afraid of these robots from Asia that seem poised to take our place, for the robot is within us, watching us; watching for that point of no return where humanity, stripped of all humanity, will display its corpse, believing it has vanquished its worst enemy. The loss of know-how regarding death has gone hand in hand with the loss of ritual: almost nothing accompanies the dead to the realm of the dead, almost nothing liberates the living from the dead and the dead from the living. The gravediggers of humanity only value ritual in order to mock or harm it, without grasping the liberation it provides through the meaning it reveals.