I'm continuing this thread: >>41360929I'm not OP of that thread, but I commented in there on the cause of religion, and I have a new thought to add.On the one hand, lack of literacy could lead people to an inability to meaningfully structure their own thoughts. This means that their experience is reliably accurate from their subjective point of view, and they can potentially imagine scenarios as well, but they can't develop complex reasoning as to the causes of things. The lack of complex reasoning causes them to make "god" their placeholder for cause.On the other hand, literate decadence leads to people who can structure their own thoughts, but this structure is disconnected from their experience of it and thus disconnected from reality as a whole. Thus, they cannot experience their own thoughts. This leads to dogmatic trust in words without experiencing them, without imagining what they would really look like in practice. This leads to religion without even necessarily a god, although they can reason themselves into and out of that concept.More terms:- The former call the latter "materialists", even though this isn't strictly a matter of what is material or not.- The latter call the former "gullible morons", even though the former might have deeper knowledge on basic things that the latter overlooks.Both of these sides are incomplete. I'm called to Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness. He talks about two types of cataclysms. One in which loss of literacy leads to a loss in consciousness, and the other in which some preoccupation with written word leads to the loss of a subconscious (Jaynes paraphrases ancients saying "the voices stopped visited us").My thought is that this may happen at the same time. This is when literacy gets collected among a few elite, and their power makes them decadent. Simultaneously, literacy is lost in the majority. Religion is thus caused by the inequality of information in a group.
>>41367937There is an agenda to create a new religion based on aliens. It's designed for atheists, who refuse to believe in a divine creator, so the creator of the new religion will be an extraterrestrial force that created humanity through genetic engineering.This alien supercivilization, with divine-like - but materialistic - technology, will be presented as the "Galactiv Federation", and they will claim to come to save us, solve all of humanities problems, and guide us into a bright future with a one-earth govenment and a new world order, as a member of the federation of planets.And maybe technological immortality through transhumanism etc.
