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27. That's a very well-appointed rabbit hole you live in.

Nice post!

I agree with the basic idea that instinctual behaviour got overwritten by cultural behaviour. That's the premise that Daniel Quinn explores in his novels "Ishmael" and "The Story of B".

However I will take some convincing on the idea that religion did it. The reason for my skepticism is that monotheistic religion post-dated agriculture by 7,000 years or so. The spread of religion was the same sort of "all at once, everywhere" event as the origin of agriculture, that happened only about 2500 years ago. Before that most farmers, warriors and rulers were happily polytheistic or pantheistic. Most religions were either divine gender partnerships or even centered on the feminine, representing the procreative aspect of the universe - the Earth Mother that brought forth all those wonderful plants they were farming. Riane Eisler's book "The Chalice and the Blade" goes into this, and how and when the shift happened to patriarchal monotheism.

And I completely agree about acid and mushrooms. I'm a bit of a '60s chauvinist - I firmly believe that some acquaintance with those magical substances is necessary in order to fully "get it".