Pre-religion: no large-scale coordination required Religion: coordination via rules, punishment, and belief Capitalism: coordination via markets and incentives AI era: no coordination, no agency—only passive consumption of progress This is not a crisis of jobs. It is not a crisis of inequality. It is a crisis of why a human life should be lived at all—when neither God, ancestors, markets, nor collective effort are necessary for the future to arrive. The unsettling possibility is that AI does not usher in a new ideology.... It ushers in none.