Through history, humans have responded to our natural selves in different ways.
As I looked at the sad state of human societies in the year 2025, I found myself wondering how we got to this point in our decline. I started thinking about the issues and wondered if they could be traced backwards through history to find some evidence of a starting point.
Some experiences in my life gave me reason to question our conventional social structures. That is how this paper became a study of history and human nature. The journey strikes deeply into some of our most passionate beliefs, and I keep returning to an unsettling conclusion that humans are easily deceived. We would rather accept commonly repeated statements as truth, than do even the most modest research to verify them,. We easily deny the opinions of someone who disagrees with us rather than spend the time to disprove it. If we do any research, we go to sources that repeat our bias, or scan the surface of the debate without digging into the depths of the subject. We just accept and repeat, which is how lies and harmful misdirection become part of our culture. embedded as immutable fact.
To disagree with the popular narrative brands the dissenting party as a heretic. People have literally been burned alive for questioning the authorities of the church.
If someone stated that what you believed was untrue, and gave you evidence from your own authority, what would YOUR response be? Would you reject the message outright, or would you work to provide a rebuttal?
Authority. How many times in human history do we need to be threatened by the corruption of power before we learn that the things we are most at risk from are authority and our nature. Our first impulse should be to question those in authority and mistrust our instincts. This paper is written in the year 2025. Four years after the horrific COVID experience, we still see people wearing worthless masks, medical facilities requiring them, and advertisements for mRNA injections. The folly and corruption of every authority on earth has been exposed and still the true believers follow, many unaware of the truth. Millions of doctors, hospital administrators, nurses, and officials lined up and repeated the mantra, and all were wrong. This was not a unique example, and the medical world is full of them. Is there an authority system that isn’t wrong about their positions? I wonder.
The combination of my professional experiences and the research I do as part of my writing, have exposed the depths of the challenges we face as a race, and I am left with several questions that torment me.
I started this paper as an exploration of what I perceive to be the sad state of western-influenced society. By every measure we are on a path of total collapse and I find no plan that provides for our society to exist as we know it past the middle of this century. I am not predicting extinction. I’m simply saying that I have found no plan that overcomes the existential threats we face other than placing our fate in the hands of either a biblical apocalypse or artificial intelligence. I find that to be curious and disturbing. Perhaps that is the test of human nature, then. We can recognize a threat but are powerless to address it with proactive, self-directed solutions.
As we explore how our belief systems contributed to our current state of affairs, I went back through history, tracing the development of modern society. It became obvious that history is being shaped by two cultures: Hebrew and Christian. Setting the religious difference aside, these are two different social systems within which humans dealt with our nature. First there were thousands of years of Hebrew culture. It was based on the belief that humans were sinful and dealing with that fact was a perpetual struggle. Core tenants of Hebrew culture was that wisdom could be learned, and prosperity in all things were blessings from God. There are many passages that support this opinion, both in the Old and New Testament.
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