A priori existentialism

I've been searching for some of the background on the LP debate and came up with Anselm's 11th century c.e. ontological argument for the existence of god. Anselm says that all we need is the concept to prove existence. We don't need empirical evidence at all. Aquinas, Kant, and
others later disputed this. Bradley, Whitehead and the process people seem to do an interesting twist on Anselm. Henri Bergson introduces the comment that "the universe is a machine for the making of gods". F. Tipler seems to start with the empiric data and then tries to prove that it's evidence for his concept. In counterpoint we have Paul Valery's "the universe is a flaw in the purity of nonbeing" and Camus' "the future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves".

The natives' smallpox gods must have retreated after the success of the vaccine the scientists tricked them into accepting. In his GRUNDRISSE Marx comments that "All mythology overcomes and dominates and shapes the forces of nature in the imagination and by the imagination; it therefore vanishes with the advent of real mastery over them." But in the Paris Manuscripts of 1844 Marx justifies death. So do the myths and their gods have a final redoubt that Condorcet and others suggested might be breached in the future? Yes:

"In the human situation means of production and need satisfaction are always scarce in relation to needs and ends which are unlimited and can never be fully satisfied. Therefore there is a continuous gap between means and ends . . . this idea as applied in economics is historically relative and culture-bound and represents the special orientation of industrial society toward economic activity and material need satisfaction. There is, however, a sense in which the scarcity principle is universally valid because it is rooted in the conditions under which human beings exist. Existential scarcity is caused by human finitude on the one hand, and on the human ability to transcend this finitude and the given existential condition through consciousness and thought on the other hand. . . . Human life is confronted with an allocation problem not only in respect to material means of production. The resources which are ultimately scarce are Life, Time and Energy because of human finitude, aging and mortality. . . . There is, however, a question whether allocation and economizing and decisions about preferences may not have to be made even with immortality and eternal youth as long as we are subject to the limitations of time and space; whatever our situations, we can actualize only limited desires here and now."--Walter Weisskopf, ALIENATION AND ECONOMICS