5 MINUTES AFTER INVENTION OF WHEEL: “bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a wheel, turning round and round, an endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms—it all keeps turning, and it all keeps coming back around.”
5 MINUTES AFTER INVENTION OF BOOKS: “bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a book, God is The Author of Being and he writes our names in the Book of Life. In the beginning was THE WORD, bro. You see bro??”
5 MINUTES AFTER INVENTION OF COMPLEX GEARS: “bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is mechanical, God is The Divine Watchmaker, and the planets spin along predetermined paths according to the turning of cosmic gears!”
5 MINUTES AFTER INVENTION OF COMPUTERS: “bro, i think i just figured something out-”
The history of philosophy in four panels. Humans do not invent tools; tools invent metaphors, and metaphors invent gods. The wheel gave us cyclical time. Writing gave us the Word. Gears gave us the Watchmaker. And computers? Five minutes in, the bro already knows he’s about to drop the simulation theory, and honestly, we’ve never recovered.
The meme format is perfect because it’s true: every major technology gets absorbed into theology within one generation. We are currently living in panel 4, and the bro is still figuring things out. Give it another century and someone will declare the universe is a GPU that dreams us into existence.
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