How much of what we perceive is real is open to a lot of debate - for instance, we all have a literal 'blind spot' of stuff that our eye really does not see because of its construction, and our brains 'fill in' the blank using cues and memory of what should go there. But maybe this blind spot extends to more than just the physical world.
At the heart of the human experience lie these things: food, shelter, company, love and sex, birth, health, death. What makes these into culture is how we eat and what we eat, how we build and what we build etc. In other words, culture is in the details.
Which made me think - the proverb says that the devil is in the details. And what do we fight wars about? Not whether we worship God or not, but how we worship seems to be a major issue these days.
I can understand the struggle over resources to some extent - we want to live and will fight to do so, but less understandable are the ideological battles - at least for me.
What do you perceive as evil?
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