What if the problem is fundamental?

Would a spiritual absolute be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, or an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell? The light shining through the film, or the narrative flashing on it?

What if an entire culture is built around the belief that ideals should be absolute? Isn't this a core problem in all monotheistic religions? "I'm right, so everyone else must be wrong."

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, which served to express the multiculturalism that arose as multiple societies came to interact in a complex world. The formative experience for Judaism was the forty years isolated in the desert, giving us the Ten Commandments. Essentially monotheism equates with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

The Romans happened to adopt Christianity as a state religion as the Empire solidified and reminders of the Republic were buried.

With Islam, the relationship between the state and religion is reversed, as the power of a common creed became the basis for the formalization of the political movement.

Looking at the world today, how far does it have to break, before we can objectively consider the factors leading us to this point.

As linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, we have reached the edge of the global petri dish and need to come to terms with reality as it is, not as we think it should be.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-cliffs-edge-2b382ae2a73