THE PROBLEM OF MODERNITY AND THE REASON WHY RELIGION FAILED AND LEFTIST PSEUDOSCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY ARE THE NEW CULTS.
Most humans are cognitively simple. Very. Most cannot grasp more than one dimension of causality, and the vast majority cannot grasp even one logical negative within that one dimension. Largely humans imitate, they rarely think and reason in any sense of the term because they lack the ability to.
It’s a miracle that we survive in modernity at all.
If there is a relative monopoly of frames of reference, and that frame varies little from the physical (material), natural (cooperative), and evolutionary (genetic, cultural, institutional) laws, then the burden of reason is reduced by the vast distribution of knowledge production transportation and incentives.
The problem is that religion can do so but at very high cost of resistance to evolutionary, cultural, and institutional development – because religion on its face does and must counter these laws. So one can produce a monopoly that is trivially easy to grasp, trivially easy to practice, but also trivially easy to stagnate, produce dysgenia, and decline.
So we must produce the equivalent of a religion that is relatively easy to grasp even if it takes training, but does not diverge from the Physical and Natural, and Evolutionary Laws.
Cheers
CD