It did. It's called culture. You just didn't realize all the ways it programmed your biases and perceptions.
Why?
Because it was so successful.
Computer programming, by contrast, is so explicit and obvious. The subtlety is lost. And with it, our humanity ( and ability to be subtly manipulated by forces beyond our comprehension and below our level of conscious perception ! ).
Culture is the original literate programming language.
Instruction pointer for the collective mind.
Virtual machine of choice ? Books. And your reading of them.
Why?
Because it was so successful.
Computer programming, by contrast, is so explicit and obvious. The subtlety is lost. And with it, our humanity ( and ability to be subtly manipulated by forces beyond our comprehension and below our level of conscious perception ! ).
Culture is the original literate programming language. Instruction pointer for the collective mind. Virtual machine of choice ? Books. And your reading of them.