Anyone remember Zardoz?

[felix_numinous]

8. I remember this trippy movie

I think I had to watch it more than once to get the whole nuance. I remember this coming up in the Foundation Series by Asimov, that a primitive culture could be controlled by an advanced group disguised as local religious icons.

So the more cultish and gullible people are, the more vulnerable to hi tech manipulation, they would totally believe a voice was their god talking to them. using AI to control a populace, people can then be easliy conditioned to obey a machine hologram. We might have arrived at this threshold, if not soon.