You've got some stunning stuff in here David, fantastic, thanks again for another great post.
The development from the sermon on the mount, to what accounts of it became 300 years later was the most interesting one to me, I will be sure to look and read up more about that, and the author you mentioned quoting the phrase, thanks for that.
A useful concept I've heard lately, from another contemporary author in Medium is "Enshittification".
I think this more or less sums up all the bad / unexpected effects of profit driven developments, though I am not sure the author of it himself explicitly agrees yet, that it's profit which is systemically at the heart of it, I think he will in time :)
I relate Enshittification to Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs", extending that to Bullshit Industry, and Enshittopia, providing a definition of the latter in Medium.
I know it's creating a whole new language of bullshittery, we might say is a kind of meta-bullshittery, even a new science, but maybe we need this to call it out :)
Its great to have physical proof now also that the world of lies all literally adds up to a burning planet.
it's actually pretty comical to realise the universe knew all along when we were lying.
We can almost hear the universe chanting "Liars, Liars, planets on fire".
Not long now until the power of truth becomes the thing cracking the whip, benevolently, rather than the old power of lies cracking it with ever more venom, I really feel like we are just starting to see full realisation breaking out :)