Let us define the planet Earth as being our immediate environment, and the Universe, our extended environment.
We are creatures living on Earth, which is one planet among many other planets that constitute our solar system. Our solar system is one among millions of other systems that constitute our galaxy, and our galaxy is one among billions of others comprising our universe. For time immemorial, we have observed to understand how our universe works. Some of us understand it works by the hand of a God or Gods, and some understand it works by a Big Bang. We all have our different understandings. Anywhere in the world you can find a human settlement, who have their own understanding of how the universe works, there, begins a new human culture.
A human culture is the collective reasoning of a community’s interpretation of how their environment works. Thousands of communities worldwide, having different interpretations, is why the faculty of Anthropology has concluded that our human cultures are innumerable, which span across a wide spectrum of beliefs, from believing the universe came into existence from nothing, to believing it has a host of omnipotent creators of varying biological physiologies.
From centuries of observing celestial and terrestrial occurrences and events, solar and weather cycles, natural disasters, societal trends, the economy, politics, and more, each community has compiled its own understanding of how it believes its environment works, handed down as knowledge through its generations. Each community applies its knowledge confidently towards making it societies better, often striving towards a utopia. History however has shown no community ever to achieve a utopia, and this is because recent Theological studies reveal that we all in our cultures have a fundamental flaw influencing our individual interpretations of how we believe our environments work.
Notwithstanding all our flawed interpretations, the common denominator of our human cultures undeniably remains knowledge. Each community fundamentally seeks to understand how its environment works, the immediate and the extended being inseparable.
Though we all have our knowledge divergent, categorized evidently by the names we have given the power we believe originated or controls our environments, be it God, Zeus, logic, life, nature, the Big Bang, the cosmos, the light, or other, we all distinctly have discovered to value a single purpose it achieves in our lives. When we obey the rules of our environment, to follow its methodologies, to do what it says, live in obedience to its commandments, reverence or worship its lordship, fulfil its obligations, or dedicate our lives to being ‘one’ with it, we live better lives, being happier, healthier, and wealthier. Something however, none of us has discovered yet, is the flaw at the core of all our human cultures influencing our daily choices.
In conclusion here, we must try to answer the following question. Are we intelligent enough to understand that any knowledge of our environment, fundamentally flawed, can create for us nothing short of a delusion?
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