posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 01:48pm on 2010-09-21
I thought at once of the Cargo Cults, tribes in the South Pacific that made idols to airplanes. There was a celebrated photo many years ago of folks in grass skirts bowing to a bamboo replica of a Cessna. Look at the 70s for example, when the members of the Me decade (now facing retirement) got into eastern beliefs, pet rocks, past-life recall and the Van Daniken Theory. {I still hold that one dear to my heart.} Humans are very imaginative creatures and they always have, and always shall invent religions even when there's no real need for them. Remeber your Douglass Adams: "We demand rigidly-defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
adalger: Earthrise as seen from the moon, captured on camera by the crew of Apollo 16 (Default)
posted by [personal profile] adalger at 08:29pm on 2010-09-21
Oh, yes. Look at Dianetics. People will invent religions on a bet, a dare, a rainy bored Saturday afternoon.

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