The window or the screen?

When I look out the window everything is peaceful. It’s autumn; the leaves are shifting colors in bright saturation, and then gently falling down on the ground. It’s chilly, the sun is shining, and there’s always work to be done. The few people I see out there are walking their dogs, or on their way to some meeting or other; taking care of business, and – most importantly – minding their own business.

However, when I look into a screen – any screen – it’s a whole different story. People are killing each other endlessly, mindlessly, in technologically advanced systems of destruction of lives and property; promoting corruption and ideal-lessness, setting humanity as well as humanities aside in favor of aggressive causality and reactivity – and harming greater nature while at it.

Which vision should I trust? Which vision gives a more accurate view of the world as such? The window or the screen? I already know the answer to that one. And I already have the answer to why the screen-world is fucked up: for too long a time people have handed over responsibility to authorities that are entirely made up of compensating weaklings who are terrified of looking at themselves in the mirror; justifying their shameful and corrupt behavior by inventing an authority above all other authorities that no-one is allowed to question.

Here, we’re not talking about a healthy projection of different human psychological-emotional qualities into colorful and often humorous pantheons ready to help out and inspire us when we feel fatigued. No, here we only have just one angry sky daddy forcing his mindless minions into submission – via powerful priestly proxies of course! – so that they in turn can force the enemy and their angry sky daddy into submission.

What sounds like a really bad joke has brought our beautiful planet into a state of disrepair and disaster. In the not too far away future, when the human survivors of the cataclysms or the space creatures look at the remains of human culture and analyze the disaster, they will come to one very important conclusion: let’s never allow monotheism again. History has proven over and over again that it’s the worst religious construction ever, as it has only brought out the very worst of and in human nature.

To us who remain on the outside, as pagans, or poly-, pan-, or atheists, the bad joke has gone too far. Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that the monotheist perspective has no respect for nature as such because whatever sky daddy they’re praying to has of course sanctioned unlimited exploitation for his specific people. This we all now have to pay for in weird and decidedly unwanted ways.

So yeah, thank you sky daddies of the world, and all your cretinous followers, for ruining a great world and a beautiful planet. And please don’t try to pull any cultic cards of accusations and scapegoatishly pointing your finger at anyone else, while stating that you’re so much better than they are. It’s too late for that trick: we all know you are all exactly the same.

While awaiting the apocalypse I will keep looking out my window and working away; minding my own business and respecting that of others around me. I am not a monotheist. I am very happy.