the reason false ideologies like "rationalism" or "acc" are able to thrive is that every wave of technocapital demands a corresponding apologetic to instruct the faithful on how to live in light of overwhelming power and wealth these are unstable beliefs, they will collapse

the central question of the next century will be who provide an instrumentally true and universal "apologetic for business" that guides the faithful. pope leo is very clearly trying to position the church to fill this role. liberation theology held the church back from this

the problem with all the ai-takeoff-folk-millenarism is you have to be really sure that you know when the angel gabriel is going to blow his horn. you don't have to look far back into history to find out what happens to prophets that mis-date the coming of the new age.