+1. A very thorough, insightful, and quite elegantly stated riposte, if I may say so.
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18 Dec 2011 4:41PM
Thank you. It is my belief that in understanding the model that causes religion to happen can we identify and prevent it, and maybe even cure it, even going as far as to avoid the faults that make religion so pernicious in the first place to be projected into other facets of life.
[This, of course, is an extension of the original post and a personal appeal from Jimmy Wales]
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18 Dec 2011 4:49PM
It depends on how quickly (and whether at all) we can improve the circumstances and education level of normal everyday people across the planet. The simple fact is, when you get right down to it, that the promise of eternal good fortune in a much better place has significantly more resonance with people who are living a miserable hardscrabble existence. It's no accident (for a number of reasons) that the countries with the highest standards of living are the ones with the least religion.
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18 Dec 2011 5:00PM
And likewise, those with tough living conditions and low education rates have high-as-fuck levels of religion.
You can't really blame the people of being scared to face their own mortality with life being as it is nowadays. Also, it's generally better for a government not to have critical thinkers as a part of the population.
If they were to do it, I think day-time TV and spam mail would be their best bet.
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18 Dec 2011 6:36PM
And thats the same principal in wich every organitazion that wants or needs people to work goes to those places.And yeah, im putting in the same sack the religions, the armys, the politician, the mobs and all who wants to offers us a ¨¨ better¨¨ way of living.Usually the bigger that the diference gets between population the more this groups grow and make their own benefit
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19 Dec 2011 3:52PM
Well... Yeah. Organizations don't want what's best for the individual (why would they, for fuck's sake?).
You're not stumbling onto any great determinant fact.
It is an organization's work to exploit individuals. It is an individual's work to strengthen an organization while getting the biggest profit possible from it (working with excellence, climbing up the ropes).
Your own emotional and psychological development is rarely of the organization's concern and you simply can't change this, no matter what economical or social model you choose.
No one will have perfect answers you can use every time. You need to mature and take care of yourself, while shunning nihilistic attitudes, usually striving to becoming a more adapted individual.
That, of course, is only if you want to have the best life possible for your situation.
If not, don't. Just don't bitch when you wake up one day and realize your life is shit and you're a pariah.
