A modern avatar of religion: the global industrial reorganization of mankind

Religion and religious feelings do not disappear. They can take new forms and invest new objects. The transcendent God is not the condition sine qua non of a religion. The contemporary world is neither areligious nor disenchanted. It is configured and engulfed by a religion that is different from traditional religions. This new religion was baptized by Henri de Saint-Simon as the industrial religion, a new type of Christianity (in his mind). His conviction was that the entire society should be organized as a manufacture, or in present day terms, of the enterprise. This new religion has found new expressions: cybernetics and the theory of organization, management sciences. It is a force that intends to transform and to mold the whole human existence in a certain manner, based upon the model of cybernetics and information technology. Efficiency is one of its slogans. The end-result should be a world that is entirely transformed into an organization, run by the central organ that sets the goals and controls the feedback loop – world government. In practice, this should also lead to the building of a collective intelligence, which will absorb everyone and coordinate all the activities of the individuals. The world is now on the road to an unprecedented form of tyranny, which can be described as the scientific organization of life.