The dance of destruction

 

Darwin as skeleton dancing with Kali as monkey!

Here is that Darwin quote again.

>>>Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed [by the Creator] into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.>>>

Was Darwin secretely a devotee of Kali? It just struck me that this is how pagan cultures saw the Goddess: simultaneously cruel, creative and nurturing. That´s Mother Nature for you, right there. Note also that there is a patriarchal god hiding in the background, "breathing" life into the "forms". A bit like when the sky god impregnates the earth goddess, perhaps? Then, the dance starts. The dance of destruction, which is also a creative force. And if you receive a special blessing, you will see the famine and death as beautiful and most wonderful...

The secular ideas of any given epoch truly are the religious ideas of the preceding epoch with the serial numbers filed off.

Of course, there is another possibility: just like Marx "put Hegel on his feet", Darwin put Kali on hers. The pagan ideas of any given epoch are *materialist* truths about the world, distorted through the lens of superstition, idealism and subjective speculation. And look how they ultimately converge: one day, science will discover that matter really can *think* and that animatism is true. Then, the scientist himself will become a *shaman*. Fermi´s paradox might follow, LOL. 

So is science religion with its serial numbers filed off? Or is religion materialism seen in a distorting mirror?  Ultimately, of course, it doesn´t really matter either way. The *real* question remains unanswered: is there a way out of here? And if so, what is it? 

Somehow, I prefer Lady Hope to Mother Nature!