Senators from Utah being Southern

[Tyler Durden]

Morlock Elloi wrote...

>It all boils down to getting masses to farm out the inquisitivness and then
>servicing it.

Well, I think this is the case 99% of the time, but I don't think it has to 
be. When most of the earlier scriptures were written, they probably served a 
function vaguely similar to modern Journals now....a place were insights 
were recorded so that others could build on the knoweldge base (if we ignore 
considerations of whether the 'insights' correspond to reality, the analogy 
with Journals is even more apropos.

Mostly, though, I agree. No wait, maybe I don't. Modern organized religion 
is more about stegoing control commands into 'religious' teaching so as to 
get the masses to support the status quo. For instance, "God wanted us to 
invade Iraq because he loves us and our Christian country and hates Saddam 
because he is evil". Actually, more than control signals there are messages 
that inform the pious that their self-interest is at stake, and they don't 
need to bother themselves with the morality of the war on US foreign policy, 
etc...

-TD


>From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi at yahoo.com>
>To: cypherpunks at lne.com
>Subject: Re: Senators from Utah being Southern
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:59:05 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >Religions are essentially collections of stories about the latter method
>
>Religions are artificial shortcuts to "knowledge" and excellent method to
>neutralize congenital human curiosity. If you can't comprehend it, fake it.
>They all offer explanations of various phenomena by using familiar human 
>memes
>(fathers, mothers, children, birth, death.) It works most of the time.
>
>The major difference between politics and religion is that politics is
>streamlined, it doesn't count on the internal consistency (and related 
>effort
>to grasp it) but instead uses (via media) brute force of repetition.
>
>It all boils down to getting masses to farm out the inquisitivness and then
>servicing it.
>
>
>=====
>end
>(of original message)
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