Originally, humans believed that this world was (more or less) the only world, but it was inhabited by spiritual beings and imbued with immense spiritual power. In a certain sense, the world was divine. Much later, other religions claimed that the world was really evil and had to be negated entirely. Still others claimed that it was originally good and fell into evil only later, or had been created by a good power as an arena to fight the evil (which is very prevalent in the world).
The idea that the world is fundamentally out of joint and must be entirely transformed was then secularized. A portion of humanity entirely stopped believing in God or the spiritual. It wasn´t necessary, since Man was the new god, conquer Nature (and himself) and usher in a techno-utopia (complete with rose bushes and handiworks by William Morris here and there).
And today, nobody believes that either. So we are left without spirit, without God, and also without Western techno-progress. We scarcely even have nirvana! But somehow this is "truth" and must be accepted. Cuz facts don´t care about your feelings. Or something. The last red-pill of humanity turned out to be a black-pill. The highest truth is a nihilistic self-immolation at the end of history.
Except of course that most people won´t accept it. The terror of nihilism and the bleakness of existence will push people back to one (or more) of the preceding stages. And that in itself is, I suppose, an interesting datum...
We are red-pilled, defiant star stuff.
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