They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are in that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic Gods they replaced.

— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

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