Preserving Sacredness - by Tina He - Fakepixels
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The worst fraud isn’t even the loss of capital, but the betrayal of faith.
When SpaceX positions itself as humanity's salvation, it taps into something deeper than progress or profit: a hunger for the sacred. SpaceX launch Silicon Valley's power didn’t emerge from code or capital alone. It emerged from the collective capacity to experience technology as sacred, as something that transcends mere utility to touch deeper human aspirations. However, when mythology meets market incentives, something shifts. The same framework that elevates founders into visionaries and startups into movements becomes a sophisticated performance art. In the attention economy, the…
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