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    Biological Formalism as Horror's Prolepsis and the Epstein-Networked Ideological Substrate of Artificial Generalized Idolatry A Follow-up to "Eclipse of 'We the People'" (Olds 2026d) regarding Epstein-Adjacent Patronage, Speciation Fantasy, Digital Economic ID, Philosophical Genealogy, and the Moral Cost of Diagrammed Conflict Douglas Blake Olds June 13, 2026   PSALM 2:1 (NRSV) Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying, 3 “Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.   Abstract This follow-up extends the framework of my "Eclipse of 'We the People' at the Crossroads of Artifice's General Idolatry" (AGI’) by naming a preparatory elite network of Biological Formalism: the patronage, ...
  Eclipse of 'We the People' at the Crossroads of Artifice's General Idolatry: Foreign Entanglement, State-Capital AI, Techno-Idolatry, Executive Overreach, and the Church’s Status Confessionis Before Vitiated Federal Legitimacy Douglas Blake Olds June 9, 2026   [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   Artifice's General Idolatry (AGI') is the political-theological condition in which dead mediation receives living predicates, corporate risk-imposition becomes public necessity, and policy accepts the idol’s terms while pretending to govern it. AGI' expands the fantasy that machines are ...