(#5047) We on whole are not who we think we are

      Unfortunately, the majority of us still find our path on the one with superstition and naivete. Our need for religion to save us and the way we fall for any old conman/woman who comes down the pike is still too ingrained into who we are. Instead of us being free thinking knowledgeable citizens we are captured by the most improbable and non scary scenarios. Yesterday I posted about the harsh reality of real life and the need to conquer it as an evolvement of our species but not through fantasy or by disregarding facts. As general rule, trying to make easy every thing hard is comforting but seldom possible. So forcing ourselves to accept an illogical safe harbor paradigm is only delaying our power to become greater than the harshness of reality that won't go away until we overcome our fears.
     I had thought that we were in an age of enlightenment but it would appear after many decades of not much proof that we are still beholden to our happily ending fairy tales. I don't want to get on a religion rant but instead would rather focus on the underlying reason for the need to salve our intellectual vacuum with a sense of illogical reasoning. Taking the easy path is so enticing especially when the harder path of truth requires a level of acceptance that is both hard and painful. But like much of life the hard and painful are just obstacles to be overcome on our journey to forging a reality that doesn't need the fantastical as a psychological dealing tool.
     When we quit on ourselves and our understanding of our existence is when we fall back on the old ways of dealing with reality. We would rather accept the unreal ease of superstition and myth than the hard work of getting to the answer to the question why. It has been shown that those who like shortcuts more than doing things correctly ultimately end up going nowhere while the doing things correctly group find themselves ahead. Life is too short to be wasting on the going nowhere paradigm while falling further behind the evolutionary scale. There is much more to discuss on this subject that involves economics as well but not enough time to dissect it. Just know this, Capitalism does not substitute for intelligence as should be obvious by now.