Compulsory Confinement

Original sin is a conceptual explanation of how one human is responsible for what all of humanity represents. According to religions we are all guilty of sin by virtue of the fact that we are born. From there we must seek redemption even as we may not have enjoyed the sins committed by our ancestors. We did not kill our brother Able, we did not betray Jesus for a few coins, we certainly did not cooperate with the Devil in his failed coup d'etat, nor were we in anyway participants in the phenomenal and inspiring act of eating from the tree of knowledge where Adam and Eve dared for a few seconds to transcend God and demonstrate their new found independence. But perhaps the greatest transgression of all was when science took the stage to demonstrate that there really wasn't much mystery to the universe that it could all be explained through knowledge, and perhaps this act could never have occurred had not Adam and Eve taken the liberty to eat from the tree of knowledge.

The phenomenally impressive thing here is that we acquire responsibility through the act that others commit, that we become victims of all the sins and beneficiaries of all the goodness committed by our ancestors; it is as if there were a subconscious moral and emotional DNA that replicates itself just as our biological self chains itself back to its primordial origins. Do we have to believe in this moral lock-down? Can we isolate ourselves from the consequences brought forth through causation?

We must not decline the historical process, there is somehow retribution for everything that we are as a matter of simple consequence if nothing else. The universe and all the things in it have a vested interest in themselves and are not going to sit quietly letting the concept of humanity march up to the podium of energy habitations without some struggle. In order to inhabit this realm we must assume energy reservations then it stands to reason as reason we must that other forms of essence will want to challenge our right to absorb cosmic energies and thus a sort of consequence of our existence is conflict; which interpreted with some latitude could be viewed as a consequence of sin and as such a retribution. The universe of course is always trying to simmer not because it wants to simmer but because it is unchaining itself from the agglomeration of energies that it has become, and it is doing this because the nothingness is all absorbing, and so we must not take it personally that the universe wants to diffuse us as it is a consequence of its being and not a true factor of its nature as its nature oddly depends on the agglomeration of energy, in the form of desired essence such as ourselves.

We must teach ourselves the world in order to unlearn ourselves. As a sort of way of reaching an acceptance of the accumulating effect of our histories we reach to externalize the consequences so as to salvage our soul from having to endure the universe crawling all over it. In this light we come into the transgression of self against the whole of our humanity, in order to endure life we subtract ourselves from the global nature of our sins or from another angle the global impact of our actions.

In short, there is a moral lock-down, we propose it to ourselves every time we attempt to escape from it, and reinforce the lock-down in the process. Rather than escape our escape merely incarcerates us in an isolation chamber, this due to the irreconcilable fact that we do not want to experience the consequences brought forth by the nature of our humanity.

RC