Huddled Yearning Masses: Getting Dumber

If one is to take the ideas of postmodernism to a point then one will discover that we are dumber than we should be. Absolutisms and worldviews are all reflections of the reality "out there". They all are narratives that tell a story one way or another. Christianity, Science, Judaism, Taoism, Buddhism, Atheism, Islam, and others are all just stories trying to explain objective truth through a subjective medium, which ends up being impossible. However, these stories aren't useless, they are in fact very useful. They are based on reality and therefore reflect something "out there" even though they can't actually define what is "out there". I come to the point now that religions throughout the world are shrinking. Pluralism in America and the world abroad is getting smaller. In fact just by our being here we are standing, quite literally, on the graves of many people who practiced religion in a way that doesn't exist anymore. Early American Tribes were as pluralistic in their beliefs as anyone. With the demise of these worldviews we have in fact become less knowledgeable about the world itself. Just as multiple viewpoints help us understand an event in History so does multiple religions. By describing the world in unusual and unique forms we gain more understanding about the world "out there". In this spirit a one world order or religion would be devastating to our intelligence of the world we live in.


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