Universal History 7.4

For as many millennia as is recorded the human race believed that it was their religion that gave them truth. Even in 2010 when the Networking Revolution began they still thought that religion was not determined by culture but by truth. 600 years later when Tamar and Asa entered the scene not much had changed.

You see, humanity does not learn from its mistakes very often. It is easier to believe that your truth will mean your success. However, reality dictates that your truth is little more than the culture you were raised with. It is rare then, that anyone within a culture dares to change it entirely. This not because many do not want to, they do, it is often because they do not even know the enemy they fight.

How can one fix a problem when they do not know what the problem is to begin with? You can try and kill a religion but another will pop up in its place. You can try and kill all religion but the same culture within the political sphere will remain or even grow further. Culture is the flow of life and religion and politics are merely the boats on that river. To destroy one does not change the path of others you put on its waters.

Interestingly enough it would be a young priestess who finally saw the river for what it was. She saw past the Tri-Verse, she saw past Asa’s extremism and she saw past all the other boats in her line of sight. For the first time, she saw the river. It was not the educated elite, the priests of religious renown or even those that asked the deeper questions who would finally see. Isn’t that the way though? Those that see are often perceived by their society as blind.

It wasn’t until Tamar’s death much later that the world understood. She knew better than to let them know too soon. It was in her writings and video images that the world was taught a gentler way. The Disconnected were not dumb but neither were the Connected disillusioned.  It was in their unwillingness to see the other as necessary to the greater whole that they failed. As though the hand was telling the stomach it should be a hand and trying to destroy it when it was not able to do so. The body of the church, for a while, attacked itself.

Many say we had to know true suffering in order to become what we are today. I am not so sure. Regardless, in her passing, new life began to arise but in the midst of her life great suffering occurred. Great loss. It was darker than Medieval Age. It was disease, warfare and struggle. Changing culture is much like changing the course of a river. Seemingly impossible and always difficult; when not done properly it may cause great destruction. So it was with the Networking Revolution. So it was within the Tri-Verse.