There will come a day when humanity will no longer believe, but will be.
-Ernest Renan.
Beliefs emerge to explain the unexplainable. Humans find them essential to provide “instant” explanations of complex or obscure phenomena. Without such explanations we would experience uncertainty and fear, or would take so long to work things out that we would be at risk from delay.
Beliefs propagate a comforting perception of order, understanding and control. Perhaps because of this, in part at least, culture and power build around powerful ideas, ideologies and beliefs. Shared Beliefs, it seems, are at the heart of social power, for both good and evil.
Similarly, opposing beliefs are at the heart of power struggles, as competing parties seek to impose their view of order and dominion over each other. Fundamentally, then, conflict is a “battle between belief systems”.
This is entirely consistent with Clausewitz’s view that “war is an extension of politics”.
What if something very precise would be an invention to draw energy from people’s mind just as providing a distracting theory for the few controlling the many? It would just be an independent belief system but what if this belief system would be largely good if it strive to survive over many years?
Let’s think, let’s create.
