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Over the millennia leaders fabricated entire religions to justify their motives, manipulate others or simply find safe explanations for all the things humans feared. These manufactured narratives were initially concocted to attribute weather patterns to a personified causative force, such as a god. In time, the narratives matured into elaborate mythologies with a full cast of characters, becoming full-blown religions. They became powerful tools of social control and centralization of authority by the nascent necrocapitalist psychonomy.
Whichever their specific motives, these narratives, mythologies and religions had the same origin: they were born out of the Mind Prison’s imagination as it sought shelter in safe mental havens. Both clergies and their leaders benefited immensely from religion: the former found a safe place to suppress all their fears, while the latter achieved wealth by weaponizing these fears through faith-based storytelling.
As we desperately sought to create these fake safe spaces within our brains, our narratives predictably resembled one other. They all attributed responsibility to fictional characters: heroes and villains, whether they were gods, semi-gods or actual historical humans idealized or chastised over the ages. These action figures became essential elements of whatever narrative we invented. They became society’s voodoo dolls, witches and Jesuses: shouldering all the blame, even though they had none of the responsibility.
Civilisations would invent either a villain (e.g. Eve, Prometheus) who made a tragic error and cursed all future generations, or a hero who redeemed all future generations, altruistically dying for the sins of future people they had never met (Jesus). Another very popular narrative that repeats across cultures is a hero accidentally setting the foundations of an entire new country. The simpler and more supremacist the narrative, the more resonant it became among gullible masses craving for belonging, identity, and a safe Mind Prison. The endless search for villains became the most ancient art of gaslighting. Whenever a leader tries to turn a helpless sheep into a big bad wolf, you are looking at the wolf themselves masquerading as a leader.
With each narrative the Mind Prison reassured and protected us from any responsibility, blame or trauma. The soothing relief that comes with blaming someone else for your own incompetence is incredibly addictive. Those in turn stupid enough to accept the blame are forever indebted to whatever church, leader or corporate brand has defrauded them. The least they can do to honour their heroes is to pledge full submission, from now until eternity, to the church’s necrocapitalist economy. Those who have disobeyed the rules and actually took initiative and responsibility for their own actions will always, ironically, become the villains in the narrative: they had dared to reject the fairy tales, going down in history as representatives of Satan. Voila. Modern, fear-based human society was born.
The main mythologies human civilisation still operates on to this day were put together millennia ago by the rich and powerful. There is no Jesus, no Satan, and no one is guilty except the rich mobsters who have been manipulating the masses since the beginning of time. Religion has been a shopfront for necrocapitalist economic policy, duly serving the interests of growth economics and the voracious power structures which delivered it. The corrosive power of the Mind Prison is immense. The truth is not simply adjusted or distorted to fit the events. It is completely reimagined and rewritten. Thousands of years after the formation of our religions we are still much better at remembering scenes from the Bible which took place in the distant past, than the modern, biblical catastrophes and genocides we commit right here, right now. Blame narratives, however fake, are always much more powerful than reality: they attribute responsibility, and secure closure. They stick to our brains, are passed down through generations, and become essential components of a nation’s “cultural tradition”.
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“Over the millennia leaders fabricated entire religions to justify their motives, manipulate others or simply find safe explanations for all the things humans feared.“
Your very first sentence gives the whole game away, George. It is the perfect, powerful summary that ties everything together.
It also alludes to the “blue dot effect,” which, for those that are not familiar, describes a psychological phenomenon where, as the prevalence of a problem decreases, our perception of what constitutes that problem expands. Basically, we start seeing the problem where it may not truly exist. This has significant implications for how we perceive threats, issues, and even progress.
The concept of “original sin” can be seen through the blue dot effect. As actual transgressions become less frequent, the definition of “sin” expands. Minor deviations become major offenses, perpetuating a cycle of guilt and blame.
The blue dot effect reinforces this by ensuring that we always perceive threats, even when they are minimal. This creates a constant state of anxiety, making us more susceptible to manipulation.
Our “leaders” exploit the blue dot effect by shaping narratives that constantly identify new “threats” and “problems.” This allows them to maintain control and justify their actions, even when there is no genuine crisis.
Essentially, the blue dot effect explains why we are prone to perceiving problems and threats, even in relatively safe and prosperous environments. This tendency is exploited by those in power to maintain control and perpetuate narratives that serve their interests.
The more we can understand the blue dot effect, the more we can become aware and more critical of the narratives that shape our perceptions; but my fear is – that ship may have sailed.
As George Carlin once said about humans and climate change in 1991, “Pack your shit, folks, we’re going away!”
the blue dot effect…very interesting. totally makes sense thank you