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History teaches us that such a fate is the universal outcome of dogmatic structures, whatever their name may be, or power, or popularity, or background.
The Muslim belief structure is but one of many such dogmatic structures that include almost all religions. In the Moslem case, as in the case of Christian religions, the dogmatic setup effectively closes the door on the individual's innermost self by setting up a supreme authority over the individual that dictates ideological axioms and labels them as truth. On this platform, the door to infinity is kept closed. It prevents man's native drive for reaching out to infinity. Whatever rests on this platform becomes a structure of limitation.
This limitation is destructive. It acts most severely against the foundation of human value. Under the axioms of delimited value human life becomes cheap. The history of the holy wars, by whoever they were fought, and under whatever pretext or name, presents an example of an ideology in which human life is considered of little value. These axioms reign with deadly force, even though it was demonstrated in times of renaissance that mankind is unmistakably the tallest and most valuable manifest of life on the planet, with capabilities that no other species is able to approximate, so much so that man has recognized himself in such periods as the expressed image and likeness of God.
Intelligence and the physical platform.
The history of humanity is the history of a profound phase shift in the development of life on earth, by which a species has become independent of the meager resources that "mother nature" presents. For a period of 800,000 years mankind had lived on a poverty limited platform, and had maintained a stable population corresponding to the meager resources of the natural world. During this entire period the human world-population remained near the one million mark. This, suddenly changed when the phase shift occurred in the development of life and intellectual capacities emerged. Suddenly, the stone-age society began to fashion stone into tools. With this a process of self-development began that had enabled mankind to raise the physical platform by creating technologies that give it access to resources that did not exist on the natural plain, or by creating resources that never existed in the natural world. Today, mankind is able to support itself at a global population density that is 5,500 times greater than what the earth once supported on the prehistoric platform. Also, the advance in civilization nearly quadrupled the life-span of people, from an average of 15-20 years, to today's 75-80 years.
Mankind's history has been one of unfolding ideas, of expanding knowledge, of applied understanding, of crossing the boundaries of limits in a near routine fashion whenever the imposed restraints allowed time and energies to be devoted to discoveries and creative applications of the technologies of the mind.
Mankind's history has also been pervaded with massive abuses of the human intellect. A new type of imperialism had been unfolding in the middle ages in which the power of ideas played a vital role, but not for the advance of civilization. In the background to mankind's pursuit of discovery, processes were created that enabled the looting of society on an ideological platform. The looting of humanity has had a long history on the feudal platform, based on land-use. But it was not until the middle ages that this primitive feudal foundation was shifted to include financial feudalism by which the efficiency for looting could be increased. In the realm of financial feudalism, in which money is regarded a 'rentable estate,' just as land had been rented by the tenant peasant, the limits of the empire were no longer geographically defined by the available land, as under the old feudal system. While land is limited is size, which limits land-based feudalism, the created financial estates had no inherent limits. Money could be created at will, and the estate be expanded. With this mental breakthrough the new feudalism also became ideologically oriented, by which its power increased even more.
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