Philosophy of Civilization Part II

"People wish to swim and at the same time keep one foot on the ground."

-Marcel Proust


This is an extention of my second article posted on here, My Own Almost-Madness. I hinted that there were some loose ends that needed to be tied up which is what I will ateempt to do in this article. I did ensure for the loose ends to be securley tied in a knot of sanity and eventual happiness for mankind, not for the simple goal of it being accomplished, but because it is what is logical.

First, a few key axioms will be expounded upon here. The first key axiom is that religions are all human created myths, no one has any or has ever had any "supernatural knowledge", God is either an hypothesis of how humanity should live, or an evolutionarly evolved portion of our psyche to help up cope with death. God is also the process of realizing our potential thorugh not repeateing histor'ys mistakes. This may seem like a grim revelation to atheists and believers alike, because it implies that atheism in all of its logical tenants are wrong and also that God in the personal; , entity doesn't exist either. However, God as these concepts is far more powerful than either of these theories. I must stop myself from getting into these concepts any further because they are dangerous to my stability. Just take them as they stand.

For simplicities sake, I will outline a few key tenants of my philosophy rather breifly. First, We must understand why myths are created in the first place, and who creates them. Secondly, we must understand who upholds the myths, and their motivation behind it. The reason why myths are created is to give hope and meaning to our miserable condition. They give us something larger to aspire to and no doubt help in the evolution of our psyche and moral lives as humans, thus ensuring our existence on Earth for a longer period of time: "eternal life". One might try to disrupt this argument by pointing out all of the bloodshed that religion has caused throughout history, but I will be quick to point out that religion is such a powerful way of looking at the world, that its true nature will be ironically distorted by people with power or looking for power. It is obvious that the myths themselves were not created to bring more destruction, but less. Therefore, any destruction that comes out of the myths is not the myths fault, but the humans perversion of the myth for their own selfish ends. Another important tenant is the people that uphold the myths in relation to the people that create the myths. The people that uphold the myths are called Guardians while the creators are called Dreamers. The Guardians always claim universal righteousness because they are guarding the myth at the time,, which at the time, represents the best version of reality for the population that is harboring it. They are wrong in claiming universal righteousness, because they do not forsee the myths changing over time to evolve into newer, better myths that will further serve humanity in its growing potential. The Guardians of the First Myth assume they are equally as right as the Guardians of the present myth. In the grand scheme of things, this is not the case. Remember that history is a cycle of getting closer to a perfect ideal, and the present myth is not the best, but merely the best conceivable one at the time given the circumstances. You may assume this philosophy is flawed because it presumes there is one myth generated which all people in humanity believe in. Because this is not the case, competing myths is another aspect of this I would like to explore. It is important to note that objectivley, there exists a myth that is "the best". For some, this may imply more destruction as history has shown us that settles these so called disputes. It is the nature of humans to be seperate in their own enclaves, and naturally to create their own version of the Earth, their own myths. The quest to find the best universal myth however, should be taken into the realm of academics, not in the realm of human induced power struggles. This is a very difficult task for us it seems, because we let our natural human instincts which the myths themselves try to squelch get in the way of our human reason.


For the purposes of this discourse, let us go back to the start of humanity. One other axiom is that there have always been myths to encompass knowledge that is seemingly out of humans grasp or to teach us how to live an ideal life. Going back to the first myth, we must assume that this one was not satisfactory since it is no longer practiced. For the purposes of this discussion we are talking about myths created in a localized geographical region, not the entire world as a whole, because the entire world as a whole has not grown at the same rate. Somewhere down the line, the first myth was regarded as not adequete anymore. It is then the principle task of the Dreamers to search their and the collective unconscious in order to come up with new myths. The Dreamers task is an extremely important and extremely extremly dangerous one. It is important because all of humanity depends on it, and dangerous because insanity and death can lay on one side of it if not carefully treaded. Many a Dreamer is found on the street corner in the present days in a schizophreinc state, babbling along his conception of humanity. Well, there was a time where these insane people weren't ignored, and they simply created our myths.

Now, the Guardian rarley understands the formation of the myths, but takes them at face value for what they are-- the best version of reality that exists at the present moment. THe Guardian doesn't see the need for the present myth to eventually be disregarded, but this in essence is okay, because if he did, he would not be a very good guardian at all.

Taking these concepts, I'm sure you can fill in the blanks yourself. For humanity to keep perpetuating itself, there needs to be an equal balance of Guardians, Dreamers, Rational Discourse in leu of human power being exerted, and above all, just loving your fucking neighbor.

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