WE HAVE EACH OTHER, CHURCHES, HISTORY, AND THE BEAUTY OF NATURE. WHY DO WE NEED

WE HAVE EACH OTHER, CHURCHES, HISTORY, AND THE BEAUTY OF NATURE. WHY DO WE NEED LIES?

Getting people together to listen to parables of history, feast, and sing is content-independent. It doesn’t matter WHAT people talk about. What matters are the existence of ‘safe’ civic rituals of ANY kind.

There is almost nothing of value in Christian history that is not in pagan history other than the extension of kinship love to non-kin in order to bridge family and tribal bonds. This improves economic rates of production and trust everywhere it has gone. Unfortunately we gave up worship of existential nature somewhat in order to worship a non-existent babylonian terrorist. Although in much of pagan Europe nature worship continued as the folk religion (just as they still exist in our fairy tales) even if the political religion was christianity, and the aristocratic ‘religion’ was the rough and unforgiving empiricism of warfare.

Furthermore, just as Chivalry gave dominant males access to status signals and self worth by acts of service, the priesthood and charity gave men and women access to status signals and self worth by acts of service.

The church took responsibility for insurance, education and family law. The state took responsibility for the construction of order (property), dispute resolution, economic production, and defense.

This division of labor maintained a balance between the clergy, the nobility, the burghers, the knights, and the free farmers, and the peasantry (illiterate working class so lazy and unproductive we cannot imagine it without watching men on third world street corners.

But none of this puts any value in the christian dogma. If anything the time of The First Great Lie has passed, and we are just now ending The Second Great Lie. Undoubtably there will be yet a third, but we will do what we can to prevent such a thing for as long as possible.

So to say we need ‘church’ with the central themes of virtue, family, love, charity, industry, and to remember our heroes and saints is to say the obvious. It would almost certainly be better to regularly remind people of the sacredness of nature, so that they would care for our commons.

But there is no meaningful reason why we must embrace mysticism in the ancient tradition, or pseudorationalism, or pseudoscience, in the current tradition (Cult of TED for example).

Nor do I understand, nor can anyone likely justify, the use of outright lying in city square, church pulpit, academic lectern, political podium, news desk, digital internet, radio microphone, motion video, or dramatic play. Why should archaic lies be distributed, and why should modern lies pseudorationalism and pseudoscience be distributed? There isn’t a reason other than we had no prior means of determining whether a due diligence of truthfulness had been performed.

We need a civic religion. We have one. It’s our history. And it’s a history that is very hard argue against. We likely need spiritualism to feel humility. We have one. It’s nature, our planet, the universe.

We have each other, we have our history and we have nature. They’re all truths.

Why do we need lies?

Cant you imagine a world without lies?

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine