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Gods vs Cameras and Democracy

Thinking about the concept of God, it is clear that humans looked at something beyond them to ensure that there exists order in the society they lived in. This concept was paramount to the success of humans as a race and evolved into the civilization that nurtured into what we are today.

The concept worked fine as long as the various communities that were governed by a particular god served the purpose without much ado. The present conflicts can be seen in this context. As boundaries overlap, the concept of god overlaps and therefore the confrontation between various gods and results in conflict. Most conflicts are fought in the name of godhead. God heads might change to the concepts followed in various religions to the change of the god head into a generic term like democracy, at least the new god democracy is generic and representative of all the thousands of gods we have across the world.

God and religion are very important aspects in maintaining order in society. When the gods are invoked he becomes the authority to decide on the outcome. Misuse in the name is God is still prevalent and atrocities are committed in the name of God. The concept of god is needed to ensure participation of people in things that we evolve and do together. The civilization that have been built on ensures that we do not do things the way we want to do and the so called conscience is nothing but the concept of god imbibed in us that stops us in doing things that we would normally done.

Take the example of a child, the child's decision are based on the concept of what it feels provides it the maximum marginal satisfaction by the consumption of something, like a toy, a big bar of chocolate or more a thieving child that picks up a cookie and wants to let her mother that she never did so. The pattern of behaviour on the part of the child would be to deny it, as the consequence of the act of lying does reward her with a nice big cookie. On the same lines, the mother can counteract by saying that a omnipresent omniscient being was watching over the kid (the logical reason to believe that the kid has consumed the cookie) would work against the kid, as the being may let her mother know of the thieving child. The effect is as good when you say that the kid was looked at through a hidden camera in the room, it does not matter to her whether the being was the being or the hidden camera ( Kids with exposure to hidden camera,  television , movies know of technology as an enabler) that provides mom, with the ability to look at the video of the activities of the kid.

To have a simplistic explanation, it is easier to say that the the God figure can be easily replaced with a camera. You might be wondering why this is an important piece of the blog. The reason we are moving into a society that is more and more material, that questions the existence of the all pervading God needs a replacement system that is universally acknowledged and respected. The camera which does not differentiate between religions, becomes the force de jour and helps in restoring a semblance of decorum and society is back on it's foot, it is a functioning anarchy as it was before the advent of God

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