Education is the only cure for ignorance. Nobody these days believes that Zeus causes lightning because we know what causes lightning. The major religion changes with time and is an expression of the ever narrowing ignorance of humanity.
Nobody these days believes that Zeus causes lightning because we know what causes lightning.
Nobody believes Zeus causes lightning because we don’t have a large socio-economic institution predicated on building statues and rendering tribute to a Pagan priesthood.
But we still have our Gods of the Gaps - our superstitions and our irrational beliefs and our pseudoscientists.
Instead of pagan temples, we pay tribute to lotteries and celebrities and marketing gurus, convinced they will reward us with sudden prosperity, social status by association, and holy capitalist virtue.
The major religion changes with time and is an expression of the ever narrowing ignorance of humanity.
The unknown yawns before us like an abyss. Storm clouds part for the blackness of space and we trade in our divine ubermensch for extraterrestrials. Economics replaces alchemy in our quest for infinite effortless wealth. Our dowsing rods scour the latest batch of IPOs for that fountain of passive income. And few faced with their own morality can escape the siren’s song of a quack cure-all, whether it is Ivermectin horse pills or the fresh blood of a young boy.
We’ve built facades of faith over genuine scientific institutions. And our faith combined with our works has granted us the mana of vaccination, internal combustion, and electrification. But don’t think for a moment that we believe in these inventions because we understand them.
Especially in the age of miniaturization, our advanced technological becomes indistinguishable from magic. The modern world is a cargo cult. We only know the sacred mantras that summon the Uber Eats Driver. We know not from wence he came.
Education is the only cure for ignorance. Nobody these days believes that Zeus causes lightning because we know what causes lightning. The major religion changes with time and is an expression of the ever narrowing ignorance of humanity.
Nobody believes Zeus causes lightning because we don’t have a large socio-economic institution predicated on building statues and rendering tribute to a Pagan priesthood.
But we still have our Gods of the Gaps - our superstitions and our irrational beliefs and our pseudoscientists.
Instead of pagan temples, we pay tribute to lotteries and celebrities and marketing gurus, convinced they will reward us with sudden prosperity, social status by association, and holy capitalist virtue.
The unknown yawns before us like an abyss. Storm clouds part for the blackness of space and we trade in our divine ubermensch for extraterrestrials. Economics replaces alchemy in our quest for infinite effortless wealth. Our dowsing rods scour the latest batch of IPOs for that fountain of passive income. And few faced with their own morality can escape the siren’s song of a quack cure-all, whether it is Ivermectin horse pills or the fresh blood of a young boy.
We’ve built facades of faith over genuine scientific institutions. And our faith combined with our works has granted us the mana of vaccination, internal combustion, and electrification. But don’t think for a moment that we believe in these inventions because we understand them.
Especially in the age of miniaturization, our advanced technological becomes indistinguishable from magic. The modern world is a cargo cult. We only know the sacred mantras that summon the Uber Eats Driver. We know not from wence he came.