The more I think about it, the more ludicrous it gets. We have avoided, with prejudice, becoming Human. All because some dumb-asses, three millennia ago, couldn't figure out how to do the one thing that could free their humanity. In their bewilderment, they began a campaign of cover-up instead of facing up. That started it all. All of the delusions and violent distractions stem from one realization. It is the one true conspiracy theory since the beginning of our existence. The rest is just fluff; further coverup. The human race has conspired against itself to remain an animal. All of the rest of it is mice dropping.
In other words, we were not equipped for our sentience when it hit us right between the eyes. We have yet to recover and attain our sentient state and desire for clarity.
If it wasn't so incredibly stupid and destructive to our existence, I would have to laugh.
I'd write some more but I would start cursing up a storm. I know how humanity operates. It will take forever for this to sink in. I'm becoming impatient for at least a sign that it is seeping through the least thick heads that humanity doesn't have to live a lie. There's only one lie. That's all it took to start the ball rolling and it wasn't even a lie at the time. Those dimwitted beasts we used to be didn't have the slightest hope of figuring it out and they couldn't face it. Our awareness grew more quickly than our knowledge. Lies grew more quickly than clarity. Men couldn't change it because it was too complex for them long ago, so they shuttered the building. It is no longer too complex. It hasn't been for at least a century. I sometimes wonder if it could have been overcome three millennia ago. We had a lot to learn, but was it only dishonesty that got in the way?
Worse, is that we have a lot to unlearn. Three millennia worth of beliefs that do not suit a sentient race. We can succeed at love. We no longer need to remain delusional.
I could go all big noise about it but that wouldn't help. It is the difference between conscious evolution and witless revolution. I hate it but it will take some time to sink in. If I raised a brouhaha, it would just cause further outbreaks of the insanity that has gripped us for three millennia. No, slow and easy, while I chomp at the bit and tear out my hair. It is the only way we move forward.
Until we lose the ties to the herd. In some ways, that is what it's all about. A herd of animals huddling together for fear of their own sentience, for fear of facing the truth, for fear of the inevitable blast of incoherency from the last dregs of the animal..
Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh! Once that is done, we can be Human.
I have to laugh. I even tested these insights on a site that thought itself savvy. An exclusive club for those that can think. If one can't broaden one's focus to study many issues, one isn't welcome. I had to laugh. There's only one issue. All of the superficial issues that we have spent (wasted) our time contemplating are nothing but window dressing, distractions to assure we never look at the real problem that men have always feared they could never overcome. Almost all of the rest of our problems branch off from the single realization of a dumbfounded race that threw it off-balance three millennia ago. I'm fairly certain I'm the only one thinking here. We are on the threshold of the dream.
Wish I could get it across to someone.