Enhanced privacy can play a significant role in fostering a deeper and more authentic religious outlook. When individuals are not preoccupied with the burden of performance, they can prioritize pleasing the Creator over seeking the approval of Creation. Privacy allows for the cultivation of sincerity and introspection, as individuals are not pressured to conform to social expectations or project a public persona for financial gain and social advancement. In a world where surveillance and public scrutiny are pervasive, the quest for sincerity can be impeded by the constant need to manage one's image. By minimizing these barriers, individuals can focus on their personal relationship with their faith, free from the distractions and expectations imposed by society. This freedom enables Muslims to engage in genuine acts of worship, devotion, and self-improvement that are driven by a sincere desire to please the Creator rather than to maintain a façade for the sake of appearances. By embracing privacy and eliminating the pressure to perform in a particular fashion, Muslims can develop a more authentic religious outlook that is grounded in humility, sincerity, and devotion. This approach allows for a deeper connection with one's faith, fostering a sense of spiritual fulfilment and inner peace that transcends the fleeting rewards of social approval and material success.

Syntheticism - trying to replace God with slow and cumbersome bureaucratic institutions - ''the State'' with promises based around abstractions grounded in political ideology of one particular flavour of the Enlightenment or the other - Marxism. Liberalism etc 21st century - trying to replace God by reinventing the human from a foundational aspect - by manufacturing a new type of biology and neuro-chemistry from scratch. Whether through manipulation via tech or reconstructing aspects of our humanness through piece-meal application. Such engineering and craftsmanship has been made possible through the harvesting and unparalleled access to the habits of mind and heart of the populace which is viable through a culture of passive digital consumption that trades momentary gratification for privacy. Remember that the "sexual revolution" was only really made possible through novel pharmacological breakthroughs in contraception. Prior to that such monstrosities were the preserve of perverted French intellectuals but it was pharmacological manipulation that brought this perversion to the masses - the liberalism we live amidst today in the Anglosphere in its social dimension really is just a child of the pharmacological industry precariously upheld with a cocktail of SSRIs, OCPs and opioid ''analgesia"

"The Hallaqian 20th-century State sought to control nature - nature was the raw material - the earth, the trees, the rivers - and this yielded particular byproducts that fashioned a new subject - the citizen. It was this imperative to mastery that created the 20th-century State. The 21st-century State no longer has such tame ambitions to control nature alone - it will now seek to control human nature directly, unmediated. This move from nature to humans captures the twilight age of the liberal hypothesis as we move towards the cybernetic" https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/44114/the-hallaqian-problem-and-cybernetics

Existential Threats of Progress, the Modern Financial System, the Metaverse - youtu.be/8_8UcjFLeGI

A thoughtful series of lectures held on AI by the Cambridge Muslim College in 2018:

2018 Religion & Science Conference: Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness | Ibn Maghreb

Important to revisit this conference on religion and science focused around Artifical Intelligence held by the Cambridge Muslim College in 2018 (th...