Newton as God

The reason that religion was so useful as a mechanism of society, is that it homogenized society. Everyone believed in the same thing (that goodness was everywhere thanks to the grace of god), and therefore people were better off at relating to each other.

One day god died (or maybe he never existed) and religion was no longer able to homogenize the masses because many people viewed religion as not true. Welcome the world of science and the religion of the true. Newton's goal (Newton was the evilist man in the history of earth) was to create a universal system of communication that could be used by humans to make sense of the world. The typical aethiest, in the aftermath of finding out that god doesn't exist, turns and clings tightly to something else (scientific rationalism). But at no point does the Human question why they must cling to something at all. Scientific rationalism is always already a deeep faith for all of western thought... even for me. But it is nothing more than a faith that makes us modern western individuals.

There is no way to think outside of scientific rationalism. People that are capable of thinking outside scientific rationalism, are thrown in insane asylums because they can not objectify the world any longer. The only attempts to think outside the scientific rationalism that makes us human beings, is to tell ironical stories like mine yesterday. That is as close as possible without going insane (but what is insane?). Of course time exists, but at the same time, time doesn't exist.

However, people that need science to make sense of the world, are no different than religious people. They need a faith to cling to. Scientific rationalism emerged out of an era deeply indebted to christian thought. Newton's rules of objective truth are narratives that are fed to society... naratives of truth. But when will society learn to make sense of the world for themselves? when will the kid with the tonka truck take over?