Morality, along with much else, is that tension and fluctuation between desire and judgement, between the heart and the head.

Our desires are many and often in conflict, so it is the function of the mind to sort through and referee them. Say your desire to pummel a co-worker, versus your desire to maintain your job.

Good and bad are not some cosmic dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. So morality can never be set in stone, as it is a constant process of judging and navigating one’s situation.

While God might be dead, we still live in its shadow, of assuming there must be some ideal state that it is our goal to find. Yet the fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

More consciousness seeking knowledge, than any form or brand of it. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

This father figure lawgiver is a narrative device, for passing cultural forms onto succeeding generations of members.

Though confusing the ideal with the absolute tends to create a cultural narcissism, where we think the rules of our community should be universal, rather than unique adaptations to our evolution.

Instead, we are responsible for living our own lives. Our judgement is selection we have taken from the natural. Though if it is not used wisely, nature is cyclical and reciprocal, not simply goal oriented.