People are stupid. They are designed/bred to operate a narrow part of the productive machinery without being aware of the larger mechanism. They are not even familiar with the operation of their own vehicle, let alone the entire fleet. Because of the default to a theory flaw they seek shortcuts, a simple formulas to explain the complex world. The key with the theories is to select a theory held by the most people in your social circle, so the absolutely dumbest proposition, the illusion held by everyone around you, would seem like a perfectly normal way of life.
And the worst part of this is that after people let go of the religious bunk, they use the same set of rules. There must be a shortcut at all times to infuse life with meaning and by definition a faulty and schematic view of the world. So you start the war on the saturated fat, plastic bottles, private property, globalization and localization, etc. Bottom line people are really, really not very smart. And they need a shortcut all the time. So it’s a vicious circle, as they default to the first available explanation. They are worst than animals. Animals don’t even require the theories to give them the permission to kill and injure their own kind.
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Sorry if this has come up before, I am still a fairly new reader. Do you have a philosophy for kindness? If people are so hopelessly flawed (and this unfortunately rings true) then don’t we need a gentler way of communicating with each other that doesn’t simply call attention to each others flaws?
My point is that because people are immersed in the false theories or religions, the theories become an excuse to be cruel to each other. So calling the attention the the “theories flaw” is calling to bring down the illusions and the lies that prevent the natural human kindness.