The Golden Calf, Redux

For while they live among his works, they keep searching, and they trust in what they see, because the things that are seen are beautiful.

—Wisdom 13:7

Modern science has historically built on the belief in an objective reality in-dependent of human existence and all life.

But in cementing this seemingly innocuous assumption, the entire modern myth ignores the fact that our view of the universe is always limited and contingent; that all we ever see, think, touch and smell is never in-dependent, but entirely dependent upon our cognitive activity, this human existence, and always an image of our own creation.

For we are terrified of the mind's plasticity, we'd rather reality not be so malleable. So we rely on the outside before the inside, hold up our perceptions above our perceiving, and wind up with a global myth that in its claims of "objectivity" is nothing more than a delusion, a deception, a magnificent mirage.

And so the culture runs mired in ignorance because its myth has started out by ignoring itself. As humanity continues fumbling through the darkness chasing its own shadow, worshiping effects before their causes, and placing its creations before their Creator.

A backwards world-view making for a backwards world. A tower teetering on flimsy foundations.

How long will it stand?