Karma Be Damned!

Karma Be Damned!

It often bewilders me to think about the lack of thought and understanding in human religious and spiritual traditions.

But then I take a step back and realize: their originators have not had as much information pass through their nervous system, as you or I have…

In other words, the founders of our faiths were not only ignorant of the modern “facts” we know, but they were also data deprived!

Besides… They did not think and create, engineering a code of behaviors for the betterment of mankind. They merely articulated the behaviors humanity already embodied – we weren’t running around raping and murdering one another before Moses came down the mountain, he did not reform, he just put the obvious into stone while lackeys cheered him on.

But this “prior embodiment of moral teachings” concept brings forth an important problem, for it reveals that what we consider moral emerges out of the mess of our evolutionary history.

Which means, what humans embody as moral axioms, and utter as spiritual/religious dictates, have evolutionary benefits, and perhaps even social benefits in a specific context. And because of that, those benefits are incontrovertibly linked to the environments and the domains of actions they emerge in.

In other words, every moral concept – even the golden rule – breaks down when we stop living in tribes of a few hundred people, and move to the internet connected technologically advanced landscape of modern spaceships. And in that civilization birthing transition, what was once acceptable, becomes problematic. And what was once unthinkable, becomes necessary…

This is not a plea for moral relativism – far from it! It is simply a call to the recognition that morality needs to evolve to fit the times, for the old morals look barbaric in the limelight of the new.

And from the perspective of the transcendental future where death ends: all morality looks atrocious.

Think of it this way…

Our limbic system may consider the notion of karma as “just” – and our subconscious may indeed reduce every interaction between beings into a transaction. But the moment we start enforcing that disastrous thought via technology, freedom weeps blood!

Just think of an autocratic system where, just like the Chinese Social Credit System, tyrants create a ledger of “Karma”. In such a world, we may actually experience what the dharma traditions think as “just”. But in that world, that sense of justice (for justice is nothing but a sense) comes at the expense of our spirit – too high a cost to pay!

Remember: Freedom is not possible, and Free Will is not expressible, where good deeds aren’t forgotten and killers can’t walk free.

But don’t worry. I have good news!

Fortunately, such ledgers shall be rejected, ridiculed and destroyed… For the free spirit shall never submit, despite everything obedient spirits can ever possibly do.