Modern states repurposed the all-seeing eye motif rather than abandoning it

Evidence

The recent spread of secular institutions since the industrial revolution—courts, policing authorities, and effective contract-enforcing mechanisms in modern societies—has raised the specter of large-scale cooperation without God. In these secular societies, Big Gods were replaced by Big Governments. Quo Modo Deum, or the Way of God represented as a Big Eye in the Sky, did not disappear—it merely changed shape. The Great Seal of the United States, found on the one-dollar bill, shows a watchful eye on top of a pyramid. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 555

Categorization

• XREF: The surveillance substitution Norenzayan names here (Big God into Big Government, watchful eye) is the same mechanism the reader maps onto Silence’s inverted fumi-e dynamic — secular state co-opting the monitoring function.
• ADDENDUM: Strongly parallels the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s treatment of sacral kingship and state authority co-opting religious ritual — the shogunate’s use of the fumi-e is secular power appropriating religious form.