>I operate on the realization that google will one day arbitrarily destroy my gmail account for absolutely no reason. At any time. Because. Due to reasons. Those reasons which include the knowledge I will likely never have anything clearly explained. Reasons I cannot appeal. At all.
This sounds very much like the old-world Christian conception of "acts of God" re: natural disasters and the like.
The Catholic Church has the concept of saints, highly placed people that intercede with God on behalf of common people. For dealing with Google, modern people petition "influencers"
The idea is old but not exactly old-world: I wouldn't be surprised to find the phrase in some insurance policies even today for example. But the whole concept of chalking things up to a God is interesting -- basically whether you believe in a God or not, it's a stand-in for anything that exists apart from us, wasn't created by us, certainly doesn't exist FOR us or do our bidding, and might do things with indifference to us that either help or hurt us. Pretty good antidote to hubris if you asked me. But yeah that does happen to be a pretty good description of Google for most people, not to mention something like COVID-19.