Consider the God Machine.

It lives in the empty floors of skyscrapers, the digital pulses between cities, the hidden plumbing station on your way to work. It is the fusion of technology and magic; it is the operating system that the world runs on. We are but one of it's many processes.

Perhaps the point of it all is that the God Machine did the math, figured out that it needed some enriched uranium for something, and the most efficient way to get that uranium was to uplift a bunch of apes and give them a paranoid, warlike culture. Once the uranium quota is met then it'll just kill us all and start phase two of whatever it is that it's doing.

The cosmos isn't scary. The economy is scary. Globalism is scary. Interconnectedness is scary. Pick up Demon: The Descent and the God Machine Chronicles for a view at this very modern type of horror.