i gave a speech pointing out how, in colonialist history, the brutality of god always reflected the brutality of life. if you did nothing but work all day in the frontier, you subscribed to the idea that you essentially had to work yourself to death or you'd go to hell, and that working was equivalent to morality.

i equated it to our current culture mythologizing billionaires and using productivity as a measure of worth.

bezos thanked me for calling him a god