u/Sarigolepas

100 years ago your life was decided at birth. You are born in a christian family? You are a christian. Your father is a blacksmith? You will be a blacksmith. Your mom and some woman down the street are great friends? You will marry her daughter. You don't have a choice.

Now you can do anything and have anything you want, your environment no longer defines you. When nobody tells you who you are you start to ask yourself: Who am I? I'm not like my brother, maybe am I born in the wrong family, maybe am I born in the wrong body?

You start focusing on yourself and that's what destroys you. You become narcissistic and the slightest remark can upset you.

You start searching for the core things that makes you who you are. Big mistake, because the basic human needs are simple: food, sleep, safety, sexual desire and self esteem. You end up letting your sexuality define you instead of your purpose. You are defined by what you want, not what you can provide.

But something even worse is happening.

100 years ago nobody knew how the world worked. Nobody knew why it was raining or where thunder was coming from. So they created religions to explain those things.

The human brain is amazing at coming up with reasons to justify what it did after the facts and brainwashing itself. You can electrocute someone to make him move his hand and ask him why he did that and he will tell you "my nose was itching"

"Your chickens are suffering" Don't worry, animals don't have a soul.

"Why do you have slaves" Don't worry, their life would be worse where they came from.

This is of course horrible, your selfish desires are what drives you and you find ways to explain to yourself why what you did was for altruistic reasons.

But selfishness is what drives the world, nobody works all day in a coal mine for selfless reasons. You won't work as hard for others as you will for yourself.

The good guys were always the ones to win because they were the ones who wrote history, the losers were all killed or enslaved. That's horrible, but it created a forcing function for natural selection of ideas. Yes, maybe the sun god is not a great explanation for why the crops are not growing, but the people who believed in the sun god survived because for some reason this specific religion led to a more cohesive and stronger society who could invade others.

Do you guys get it? The stronger wins, which leads to natural selection of ideas, religions, cultures and societies. It doesn't matter which religion is closest to reality, what matters is which religion makes your society stronger.

The issue is that in the modern world the losers don't die, they are not turned into slaves, and they have access to the internet, which leads to an endless ideological war.

Instead of following the beliefs that lead to a more cohesive society we start to follow beliefs based on truth.

By focusing on deeper truths we find ugly truths. Not just stories about sexual abuse but deeper truths about men and women, about how their power struggle is driven by nothing more than supply, demand and conflicting goals, needs and expectations.