15 July

People may have seen me posting here for a few years now about how the political battles between ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are actually something else. The continuation of the driving force of our history, the battle between Church and State. And here it all is, in black and white. Not hidden, just waiting for people to notice. I’m also absolutely agnostic as to who should win this battle, States have been mostly hopeless in the tiny amount of historical time they’ve been in the ascendancy, whereas Churches actually built and ran our societies for most of the last two thousand years. Ultimately this is an even deeper battle, between people who think you can run a society with everybody believing whatever they like, and people who think you need a unified belief system of some form. I think the latter is practically true, how we act is based on our beliefs, and if we all believe different things, we can’t act collectively. We can’t be a society.