Lol.

Keep in mind, democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors.

Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism as the sides of the Empire were coming together. The Big Guy Rules.

While the pantheistic aspects were shrouded in the Trinity, focusing back on the singular, not the fertility rites from which it rose. The young god, born in the spring to the old sky god and earth mother.

The Catholic Church was the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, morality and law.

The logical fallacy in Western monotheism, the Catholic "All-knowing absolute," is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

For the Jews, the ideal is the tribe, for the Catholics, it's authority, for the Muslims, it's law, for the Protestants, it seems to boil down to love.

So that political manipulation of those cultural touchstones goes all the way back.

Religions are like the childhood memories of culture. Foundational to all that follows, but still to be taken with a few grains of salt.

The Zionists are re-litigating the issue the Maccabees had with the Romans. That their god didn't bow to any other gods.

That 2000 year gap, of too many shamans and no chieftains, has left an under-developed sense of diplomacy and an over-developed self absorption.

If every Bronze Age tribe had some messianic attitude, there never would have been Anglo-Saxons, just Angles and Saxons, battling it out for eternity.

Nodes and networks.

Synchronization and harmonization.

Our technology is more evolved than our sociology.

Though even that is starting to trip up over our general ignorance, as AI doesn't take into account the centripetal qualities of specialized knowledge, against the centrifugal qualities of generalized knowledge. Nodes and networks.

All the "shut up and calculate" is just so much GIGO, when the premises are flawed.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2

https://medium.com/counterarts/why-the-feedback-loops-need-circuit-breakers-531d1ab0fe0f