Sunday Morning I

As you can see, I am trying to get better at writing every day.

And I have been working on trying to swap out the world-view lenses that came equipped with my birth in the USA during the zenith of its empire.  It is a lot harder than you can imagine.

Look, that world view worked for a long time and made a whole bunch of people fat, dumb, and happy.  Your humble correspondent being one of the FDH crowd.  But, as I have noted here many times before, the times they are a-changin'.

So I am trying to figure out how to drop a lot of the Abrahamic thought processes and shallow bigotry that it so thoroughly engenders.  Abrahamic thought is either seriously tribal (see Judaism) or aggressively intolerant (see Christianity and Islam).  Though not to put too fine a point on it, tribalism and intolerance is the core of all the Abrahamic faith's all we are discussing in this particular paragraph.

You have to tie this intolerance into why here in the USA we are struggling so hard to deal with the changes coming upon us.  Our way or the highway (or regime change, take your choice) is the order of the day.  And it appears that the rest of the world is beginning to see through the illusions that we have thrown up to justify our incessant needs.

So I am going way back.  Nietzsche called Christianity "Platonism for the Masses".  The guy was pretty messed up in the cabeza, but he nailed it on that one.

So, lets go back to philosophic systems of thought that predated or in place at the same time but were independent of Platonism.  What is piquing my curiosity now is the systems of thought and philosophy that were actively sought and and destroyed by the "Abrahams".

The real big problem with this is that the Abrahams were so damn efficient at their task.  I started down this line of thought trying to figure out why witchcraft pissed off the Abrahams so badly.  Good luck with that.  When you go through what tries to pass itself off as Wiccan, lack of authenticity is almost frightening.

So, a reading I go.