Fundamentalism For Green
[Artist’s depiction of The Realm of Ideas by Captain Colorful]Fundamentalism is a technology for saving energy in the brain. It’s also a green technology that can save the environment of the human nervous system from having to think too much. The more we think, the more energy is burned, and in times of psycho-social crisis, thinking will only increase the amount of stress in an individual, so it would probably be best not to think at all.
A better, greener approach to the energy system of the human brain would be to surrender it to the dictates of a fundamentalist belief. It can be any belief, as long as the belief is narrow-minded and absolutist in structure. It can be a belief in God, Allah, unicorns, democrats, republicans, the great Nothing, take your pick. The only criteria are that the belief must be held as the only truth that could ever exist. All other options must be completely blocked out from consciousness.
Believing so firmly in something saves us from wasting precious cognitive energy on accumulating new facts or wondering what other perspectives might have to offer. This is a waste of time and only contributes to unnecessary mental strain and a constant updating of what we stand for. There’s far too much thinking going on in this world. It’s time we conserve energy and have other models and systems do the thinking for us. Save cognitive energy now. Conserve resources. Please, stop thinking.
The Land of False Idols.
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