For some strange reason, the world of man is predominately the world of lies. One of the reasons we lack a true historical account of human history, especially of our origins, is that men are such liars. The apparent need to conform to an ideal seems to be the mainspring force for these lies. It might be a side effect of "social intelligence" or the shared brain cognition we have. Those archetypal constructs in our brains might be part of the shared dictionary of symbols that underpin language.
There's another way to view the world that casts this all aside, and that relies on "truth" as the guide for thought and action. I'm not a christian, and probably wouldn't ever convert, however I see that christianity embodies some aspects of this truth, this muddling way in its conception of "sin" and redemption.
Man is not a fatally flawed creature according to christianity. He is redeemable, mainly through an acknowledgement of faults and failings. It's a sort of reunion of his "higher self" with his natural aspect; it's a mutual kindness of these two things. Other peoples and religions--the Bill Gates creatures--put maniacal emphasis on their mangled nature idealism. In recent decades--maybe the last hundred years--those people have gone completely off the rails. They basically don't exist in the human world, or the natural world at all. They're in a sort of bubble of unreality.
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