Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created th…
Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created the illusion that the usurpers were divinely selected to lead. And as you say, as the population grew to enormous numbers we became disassociated from each other so that anyone that you didn’t like was just a thing that could easily be discarded.
Some countries have begun to deal with this and put compassion back into their system of governing, providing support for all, but not the USA. Tragic that the once greatest and most successful nations on earth has sunk to the level where the only way to survive is take away from everyone else. It’s not a way that will end well.
Just yesterday I posted to some discussion group the deadly addiction to religious lore, in that case related to Putin's mental throwback to the elegance of Russian Orthodoxy. What could ever be more addictive to a human than the chemically influenced 'thought' of total omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We live inside a biological being who is ill-equipped to resist addictions, and in truth uses them as mantras, swords of Damocles, and nursemaids substituting for mothers long gone.
Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created the illusion that the usurpers were divinely selected to lead. And as you say, as the population grew to enormous numbers we became disassociated from each other so that anyone that you didn’t like was just a thing that could easily be discarded.
Some countries have begun to deal with this and put compassion back into their system of governing, providing support for all, but not the USA. Tragic that the once greatest and most successful nations on earth has sunk to the level where the only way to survive is take away from everyone else. It’s not a way that will end well.
Just yesterday I posted to some discussion group the deadly addiction to religious lore, in that case related to Putin's mental throwback to the elegance of Russian Orthodoxy. What could ever be more addictive to a human than the chemically influenced 'thought' of total omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We live inside a biological being who is ill-equipped to resist addictions, and in truth uses them as mantras, swords of Damocles, and nursemaids substituting for mothers long gone.