On grand timescales, you can see how events like the Pandemic, the Californian, Australian and Greek wildfires, Floods, local wars, diseases various, would have once sown the seeds of religions and make gods of men – men who then hide gods power behind an impenetrable wall of `I don’t know why… but he only talks to me… and’.
This is said, very much in regard to ancient knowledge or lack
thereof, where clever chancers, see a chance to bend people to their will by
using what appears to be `the metaphysical'.
We are in a fearful time and yet there is so much good going on.
For thousands of years, things were not good. We died easily to
all potential killers be they, animal, plant, mineral, bacterial, and for any
reason real or imagined by others for whatever motivation -never mind what the environment could do just by being the envelope we all live in.
We now see, this metaphysical realm in modern technology expressed
as memes, headlines, fakery, chicanery, avarice-generation, control,
misdirection, and all the work of charlatans or control freaks since the dawn
of time.
But it is so obvious when you step back in the light of that same
science and tech and look (madness lies in thinking about that too much). I
think looking for this `metaphysical' says more about human nature at the
fundamental level.
We look for gods if we are allowed to.
This is a long-winded way of saying, it was probably easier to create greater gods for longer periods if you started two thousand years ago. These new ones don't survive scrutiny. And as for the old ones... it would be nice to see them fade in the face of our better natures, and the subsequently improved personal-nature of our technology.
