Theme: Civilization

THE NEXT CHURCH

—“The universe was, is, and will always be beyond human scale. Religions are an evolved response to this complexity. They work. I don’t see how we can figure out what to do without a positive value system, even if it might fail the Darwinian test. I don’t know. All this is too much for my tiny brain. The problem is too big and complex.”— A Friend

Its actually simple. And just as we need multiple languages to talk to multiple layers of ability (classes), and just as we need multiple states to serve the interests of multiple layers of tribes; and just as we need multiple sciences to break the world into parts that we can disassemble; and just as we need multiple economies (military (slave), commons (serf), union(unskilled labor), market (producers), and finance (gamblers), we need multiple NARRATIVES just as we always have: the religious for the weak, the philosophical for the able, and the heroic for the superior.

Those narratives already exist. The problem is thinking You’re everyone (democracy and equality) rather than the member of a class.

The universe may beyond human scale, but the scope of action available to humans of different ability varies dramatically from those who can barely care for themselves, to those that can care for others, to those that can manage others, to those that can organize others, to those that can organize many, to those that can advocate for as many as they can serve.

Choose the tool that serves the scale that is possible for you.

What I hear is from most people is “i want to be led”, or “I want to control”. Rather than I want to do. I want to know what to do. I am willing to do the good. But I must know what it is?

it is the good that you can understand and not bad.

And between the greek and roman heroes, the scientists, the arthurian legends, and the stories of the church servants, it is hard to imagine yu cannot find it there.

What I think you mean, and what I think most people mean, is that they lack an institution that assists us in organizing under those principles – those narratives.

Which is why I think the next iteration of the church talks to each class, not to the peasantry.