Ed. Note: (I was in a brash mood when I wrote this… and was speaking a bit rashly. I do not necessarily believe everything I wrote below. Yes, I do that on occasion. But I am leaving it up because we are all learning here… and that’s really the goal.) Did you think those jungle savages were enlightened nature fairies? It’s a good thing you didn’t try to find out, because Avatar is not only bullshit (and I mean monumental bullshit), but you might want to know that the Yanomami (often framed as angelic nature spirit people)… they like to smash the heads of enemy children (belonging to other tribes of their own people) against stones because they actually think the squishy sound is -hilarious-. Religions and culture stories blind us to who and what we are and can be. Not just with beautiful stories, but with deadly stories, too. And war is the deadliest outcome of people telling each other stories on Earth. Do you know why? Because the fact that they can tell stories inclines them to believe that -we are stories-. And so, too, the world. And that leads to war. Directly.

Ed. Note: (I was in a brash mood when I wrote this… and was speaking a bit rashly. I do not necessarily believe everything I wrote below. Yes, I do that on occasion. But I am leaving it up because we are all learning here… and that’s really the goal.)

Did you think those jungle savages were enlightened nature fairies? It’s a good thing you didn’t try to find out, because Avatar is not only bullshit (and I mean monumental bullshit), but you might want to know that the Yanomami (often framed as angelic nature spirit people)… they like to smash the heads of enemy children (belonging to other tribes of their own people) against stones because they actually think the squishy sound is -hilarious-.

Religions and culture stories blind us to who and what we are and can be. Not just with beautiful stories, but with deadly stories, too.

And war is the deadliest outcome of people telling each other stories on Earth. Do you know why?

Because the fact that they can tell stories inclines them to believe that -we are stories-. And so, too, the world.

And that leads to war. Directly.