We are all fundamentalists of the heart.

The fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would necessarily be that essence of sentience, bubbling up through life, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. More the new born, than the wise old man. Consciousness seeking knowledge, than any form of it. The desire, more than the objects of desire. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

It is just that no culture could exist, if it simply reveled in sentience.

Think of reality as a dichotomy of energy and form. Say galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. As biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, along with the central nervous system to create images of the forms precipitating out.

So it’s this dichotomy of desire bubbling up, as order coalesces in. The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement.

As societies are the organic social energies bubbling up, as civil and cultural forms coalesce in. Youth and age, liberal and conservative.

The problem is that we have this paradigm of monist idealism, where we have to ultimately define everything in terms of the One. So both sides of this process assume they are on the one true path and those going the other way must be misbegotten fools, if not evil.

Yet nodes need their networks. Organisms need their ecosystem. The signal needs the noise. The brain needs the body.

We want to pass judgement on that which created us. We want to transcend it, like a flower transcending its seed. We are the tools of our desire.