Capitalism and the prophet motive part 1
The prophet motive
Capitalism usurped the work,
Religion captured the communal soul
The communal nature of both the contribution of work and the social nature of humans was slowly bent and warped by the authoritarian personalities who atomized (individualized) and restructured the essence of communal living, which is the most natural form of a human being's social behavior. For the most part, the structure remains the same except, and it is a big exception, now all those who have power (authority) over us are totally made-up personages and figures,based not on respect and ability and desire to serve their community, but on the contrived legitimacy of enforced obedience from even more distant and disinterested authorities.
I can use the catholic church as my example because I'm not an expert in the rise of capitalism nor the prophet motivation in other cultures, such as in africa or the other non-western hemispheres. I can infer though; how ancient civilizations elsewhere structured their large populations pretty much on similar principles of authoritarianism and enforced/forced standards. There is a rule that the more power necessary to protect themselves from the underpowered grows exponentially as their power grows until eventually the social apparatus necessary to stay in power becomes so convoluted as to become unstable. Thus, all civilizations die and/or become transformed and fractured eventually into something else or several something else's by those who rebel.
The small city state kingdoms of a few thousand years ago became part of larger and larger exploitative empires which disintegrated and smaller entities grew into other exploitative empires and so on and so on.
The catholic church grew the same way. From small communal enclaves based on faith, throughout the middle east and asia minor-turkey, and mediterranean societies- into an empirical dynasty riding the political and military backs of a monarchical authoritarian development of the state which themselves evolved out of small feudal authoritarian entities. All turning out to be a perfect storm for modern world/industrial empires, exploitative empires we currently live under.
Indigenous societies since then have had no chance to develop since it is the main aim of these capital-oriented religious based states to transform indigenous, social, communal societies into some sort of slave/working/consumer populations which have no real power nor influence over their captors.
I call these capital-oriented religions because capitalism itself is a magical belief in the use of an abstract ideal, like god is, in order to breed, socialize, and maintain an illusion in a promise of some sort of earthly paradise or heaven bound eternal life.
If you think about it, none of the tropes fostered under capitalism are true, have never been proven true, nor have they proved to be better than everything else.
In fact, the only thing capital and the prophet motive which is capitals precurser and base ideal, has shown to the world is the basis for the very human trait of selfishness, disorder, dysfunction, and possibly the worst, a direct cause of self inflicted violence to itself.
