Religion mirrors society.
phase: religion society
hunting and gathering pantheism most socially mobile
horticulture prime&lesser
gods beginning class system
agriculture monotheism caste system
industrial science political agenda
post industrial humanism political agenda
Observing the species I came across an interesting
situation. In a field test poll 80% defined likeable
character as people who are "nice, friendly, and easy to get
along with" while they defined dislikeable character as
those people who "people who can't get along."
"...Bunch of easily led automatons pelting a grocery
store clerk...don't you have jobs to go to? Why don't you
go commute or something?"
- Clerks
The species shows extreme denial when confronted with
the fact that it is really nothing but an advanced form
of primate.
An Observer must be constantly reminded that the species
observed is merely a flesh-automaton. Which, of course,
can be programmed.
(of the individual)
The individual feels constricted; trapped without
knowing why. The block of ice forged by the glass hammer
keeps the individual from being truly free. The individual
has visions of himself screaming from behind a frozen
surface drowning in the lake of life.
"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows... until my
sorrows, they learned how to swim."
- U2
The individual wonders if the he is crazy.
The individual then wonders if the world is crazy.
(of language)
Ads promote iconeracy - one picture to convey one thought
trend. To reduce people to mere skeletons of intellect. To
make people more simplistic. To make critical thinking
unnecessary. To make people more controllable.
Observing the youth I have made this discovery. More and
more people lose their powers of communication. Vocabulary
is shrinking and iconeracy promoted. Idiomatic ifs supposed
to complement language, not supplant it!
The machiavellian methods of language restriction thought
up by Orwell and brought to life by pop culture are
realizing their goal. Can original thought survive?
The species has lost the pleasure in learning - they only
learn what society tells them they should learn and then
are categorized into specific roles. Only then, in that
worker-bee desperation do they remember the pleasure of
learning and thinkings and regret that they do not have the
time for it anymore.
(of Coffeehouses in general)
In this atmosphere, there is not a word spoken nor a
thought given that can be said to be meaningful - this is
the essence of smalltalk and the crux of chit chat.
(of reproductive stratagems in the species
or
of how men and women plan to fuck)
In the spring courtship rituals abound, like the buzzing
of mayflies dancing around the garden, this particular
species has its own seperate methods of signalling sexual
desire amongst itself.
The female of the species plays mind games and
manipulations, so the male of the species is forced to do
the same. So the females must play some more, a never
ending spiral, a web of deceit at the center of which sits
The Black Widow of Love. The setting of this is the
hormonal depression which affects us all. These games teach
us to be callow, insensitive, and cold - apathetic.
Most females of the species have mates, yet males are
often alone. Yet no one questions the research of a
celibate religous fundamentalist when it comes to the basis
of genetic research.
The females of this particular cultural range and
geographic locus seem to be attracted to males who exhibit
large size, build, and obvious displays of influence among
their aggregate.
Interestingly enough, that is the same way baboon females
choose their mates.
(of love
or
of how men and women plan to fuck with each other)
The species is predictable. The females seek alpha males
to mate with and the males seek dominance over their environs
to make themselves more attractive to the females. A few
males can reason to use psychological tactics in their daily
associations with the females to compensate for the
inability to manipulate using body language and expression.
Their Freud would say:
Men select women on the basis of health - clear skin,
bright eyes, shiny hair, good bone structure, red lips
and rosy cheeks - these are signs that a woman is in the
peak of her childbearing years.
Women select men for alpha male qualities - the
ability to dominate other males and bring home a large
share of the kill. They assume male dominance ensures
survival of the family group.
Each one of the species is searching for a mate with
a particular set of positive and negative personality
traits.
Individuals of the species do not find other individuals
when they look for mates. They find copies of themselves.
Dyads who stare at each other will soon be alone, those who
can communicate will last. However communication as a
lost art among this aggregate.
Females of the species deny that they are instinctively
drawn to alpha males, reasoning such actions are brought
about by "destiny," "love," "chemistry," or "magic moments."
They deny operating on the first circuit primate behavior.
The males relegate such actions of attraction to, "She's
got nice tits."
The single of the species will attempt all sorts of
tricks, plots, and devices during the courtship ritual and
justify this in the name of Fair Play in Love.
(of Despair)
The species can never be content as a whole, but several
have learned to Step Out of the Picture.
"You were born, you came from nothing, you die, you go
back to nothing, so what have you lost? Nothing!"
- Eric Idle, The Meaning of Life
(Conclusion)
To agree with R. A. Wilson, we are all a bunch of
primates who talk shit far too much.
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