Theme: Cooperation

All religions fail, and must fail, post-agrarianism unless they are reduced to law, that is testable, decidable, and resolves differences, thus facilitating cooperation.

Religions are simple myths that convey subjectively experiential values for use as general rules of behavior.

In this way they contain unconscious rules (metaphysical grammars) that do not require young adult reason, or mature empiricism.

In the hierarchy of grammars, from anthropomorphic to mythic to theological to philosophical to rationalism to empiricism to science to operationalism, we require the least cognitive and informational density at the beginning and the most cognitive effort and informational density at the end.

Therefore as the complexity of social economic technological and political orders increase, we develop not only classes under the division of labor, but cognitive classes each using grammars of their class, in hierarchical order.

As such, where, in primitive societies classes were marginally indifferent, in advanced societies classes are marginally different and sometimes vastly so.

So, instead of a unifying religion of the simple and anthropomorphic experiential we require a strategy for the grop that is consistent whether described at that mythological and intuitionistic level or at the calculative and unintuitive level.

As such the only solution is a non-false religion that can be expressed mythically to computationally.

The only religion I know of that does this is nature worship, ancestor worship, hero worship, and ‘nation-worship’. Because all religion provokes a debt response, producing the submission response, producing the sense of safety in the group, producing mindfulness, because of shared systems of values and measurements. This is why religions function for all humans – but grammars (paradigms) of differ across humans and in particular vary by race.

So, (a) first understand your group evolutionary strategy and why it has been successful, and (b) then attempt to translate past religions in to a new religion that is no longer false. And is, at worst, metaphysically presumptive and narrative.

Why? Because the truth is quite challenging – we are relevant to the universe – it is a vast hostile irradiated wasteland, and even this planet seeks to genocide us with disturbing regularity – and as such must become, as our ancient pre-christian ancestors understood, competitors to the gods, so by our reason and civility eventually replace them as gods ourselves.

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