One can only imagine how absurd the process of social construction was immediately after the transition from hand-speech talk to speech-alone talk in any particular Neolithic or Mesolithic culture.\u00a0 Symbolic orders spontaneously arose as if by magic.<\/p>\n
There was no way to stop them and there was no way to contain them.\u00a0 The resulting social constructions produced mind-numbing inequity.\u00a0 At some point, a sovereign arose.\u00a0 The sovereign was the social construction that claimed to hold a monopoly on violence among symbolic orders.\u00a0 The State was born.\u00a0 The State then proved to be one site unparalleled in its production of social surd.<\/p>\n
And the tragedies never stopped.<\/p>\n
One can only gawk at the irony that the same unknowing exhibition of power over the unsuspecting and unprepared that marked Western colonialism must have characterized the period in southern Mesopotamia that directly followed the emergence of unconstrained complexity.<\/p>\n
At the same time, within the social surd, authentic and miraculous events can occur.<\/p>\n
How?<\/p>\n
First, individuals withdraw and call upon God.\u00a0 This pattern fits the story of Abraham\u2019s lineage.\u00a0 Haran may have turned his back on the ancient family tradition of Seth.\u00a0 And from that stance, Abram called on the very God that inspired Seth.\u00a0 Abraham was authentic.<\/p>\n
Second, even though characters behave unauthentically, the result may be described as authentic.\u00a0 This pattern fits the story of Joseph.\u00a0 But even more spectacularly, the pattern may fit the construction of the Bible itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One can only imagine how absurd the process of social construction was immediately after the transition from hand-speech talk to speech-alone talk in any particular Neolithic or Mesolithic culture.\u00a0 Symbolic orders spontaneously arose as if by magic. There was no way to stop them and there was no way to contain them.\u00a0 The resulting social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n