Synopsis
When I wrote this book back in 2008, it was my reaction to having been felt trapped by religion. It was my resentment toward having to live in the Bible-belt of America. Because of that, some revisions in the text had to be made, especially when taking into account how traditional religious views are no longer being tolerated. We're all being made to worship at the altar of corporate will now. Because of that, everyone's addicted to their devices, and are beholden to the silicon gods who provide them. The thing that keeps us obsessed with them is the dopamine response. We're so interested in what's coming next, we don't stop to appreciate what we already have. Somewhere along the way, everything’s gotten watered down and shallow. In our rush for the quick fix, we’re losing our ability to think for ourselves. What was once placed squarely in the arena of religion has now become embedded in every aspect of life. So then, even though I'm pretty hard on traditional thinking here, it must be made clear that religion comes in many forms.
No matter how idealistically, I'll suggest how we might break the dreary chain of causality that's created our willing imprisonment. Despite the media's insistence that we focus on the mundane, I'll explain how we can focus again on those things that used to matter. In our desire to escape, we've been bamboozled by what we're told is reality. Sure, belief is important. And while things like religion is our way of reconciling ourselves to dying, it shouldn’t become so powerful that it prevents us from living.
If we notice an ant crawling around on the lip of a drinking glass caught in an unending circle, we’re amused by its shortsightedness at first. But hours later, when seeing that the ant continues on its relentless trek around the glass’s edge, we start to get mildly annoyed. We’re dismayed by how this apparently stupid creature hasn’t yet figured out that it’s been going around in this little circle. In fact, if we don’t intercede in some way, it will likely go on like this for the rest of its life.
What most of us fail to take into account, is the fact that one of the ways scout ants blaze new paths, is by laying down a pheromone trail that will aid it in returning to the colony later. If the trip was successful in yielding up new food sources, then that same trail can subsequently be followed by other members of the colony at some future point. Since there have been ants, that’s a pretty good way to run a business. It’s a safe bet that most of the world's ants won’t end up on the edge of a glass somewhere, since such items are relatively rare in nature.
In that same spirit, I wonder what some dispassionate observer would think if they were to look at some of the things we believe. Would they laugh at our plight, or would they be appalled by our own brand of short-sightedness? Sometimes it’s best to recognize the futility of going around in this big, unending circle. But what if all of it were engineered that way?
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Thank God for Atheists
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