i hope you can forgive me for being so pop
so we seem to come to the essential notions of mystery at this point. the mysteries that have guided us to speculation. throughout the last ten thousand years we have been expanding our vocabulary for the sole purpose of forming doctrines in the shape of jigsaw pieces so as to at some point find them all fitting together. but they dont. these doctrines, these "because" statements made as responses to the "why"s will never fit together because the why is driven to recognition by the supression of an entirely human inclination that is directly opposed to our cultural sanctity. writing was not INVENTED ten thousand years ago, it was merely applied to the governing of man's continuation.
these doctrines can easily be seen as laws. God's law, The State's law, Dad's law, neighbor's law, store law, gravity's law, UN's law, Nature's law, your law. all can be percieved and carried out and attempted so long as they do not perform themselves counter-productively to the higher laws. we all understand this. it is why our personal sustainance does not outweigh that of a higher or more prosperous populace. it is why men destroy other men. it is why men do not destroy other men. at this point in history, one might infer that it is why men ARE men, that it has become a means of identifying us. but this is an incomplete inference, clearly. those laws that are in opposition with my own cannot define me. rather, they define he whom is governed by them. so that man is broken up into systems of adherence. THOSE men are THOse men because they follow THOSE laws. WE are We because we follow THESE laws.
but what was the identity of MAN prior to the existence of established laws. well, the immediate response would be that there was not one. our cultural interaction and the continuation of our method of existence are entirely dependent on the doctrines that we have created. in the absence of our doctrine, presumably, we would be thrown into the negative consequences specified within these doctrines. the religious man, in the absence of religious doctrine, would be cast down to hell upon death. the statesman, in the absence of the state's doctrine, would be reduced to a common poorman. the poorman, in the absence of the doctrine of poverty, would be transformed into an equal.
while within this culture of doctrines, we NEEd laws. we need them so that we are capable of governing ourselves away from our natural inclination. these laws convince us that without them, Man will fall to his pitiful state of natural flaw. they bring us above nature. make nature ours. that we are as flawed as nature without our laws. they are what make us BETTEr than all else. Gods Chosen.
but this couldn't possibly have always been the case.
it is why all revolutions thus far have brought about a heightened state of cultural control.
these doctrines can easily be seen as laws. God's law, The State's law, Dad's law, neighbor's law, store law, gravity's law, UN's law, Nature's law, your law. all can be percieved and carried out and attempted so long as they do not perform themselves counter-productively to the higher laws. we all understand this. it is why our personal sustainance does not outweigh that of a higher or more prosperous populace. it is why men destroy other men. it is why men do not destroy other men. at this point in history, one might infer that it is why men ARE men, that it has become a means of identifying us. but this is an incomplete inference, clearly. those laws that are in opposition with my own cannot define me. rather, they define he whom is governed by them. so that man is broken up into systems of adherence. THOSE men are THOse men because they follow THOSE laws. WE are We because we follow THESE laws.
but what was the identity of MAN prior to the existence of established laws. well, the immediate response would be that there was not one. our cultural interaction and the continuation of our method of existence are entirely dependent on the doctrines that we have created. in the absence of our doctrine, presumably, we would be thrown into the negative consequences specified within these doctrines. the religious man, in the absence of religious doctrine, would be cast down to hell upon death. the statesman, in the absence of the state's doctrine, would be reduced to a common poorman. the poorman, in the absence of the doctrine of poverty, would be transformed into an equal.
while within this culture of doctrines, we NEEd laws. we need them so that we are capable of governing ourselves away from our natural inclination. these laws convince us that without them, Man will fall to his pitiful state of natural flaw. they bring us above nature. make nature ours. that we are as flawed as nature without our laws. they are what make us BETTEr than all else. Gods Chosen.
but this couldn't possibly have always been the case.
it is why all revolutions thus far have brought about a heightened state of cultural control.