this is an essay that i wrote during the summers
if we venture to the time of primeval man and exercise an elementary analysis on his psychological state we shall astonish ourselves with the findings, some questions that we may rightly ask of such a man would most certainly include
"whence this propensity for attributing natural phenomena to an incomprehensible super human power"
indeed, one should certainly be perplexed, for what force compelled primeval man to assign the setting of the sun and the rise of the moon as the responsibility of a supernatural entity? why could man not comprehend such phenomena as simply phenomena?
one need not look far into such a remote time at all, for he is sure to find the answer with a simple sober self reflection, when man explains his actions by way of moralistic teleology he is not seeking moral justification, rather he is projecting his own aesthetic tastes onto virtue, to mould virtue into his own image, this egotism may also be extrapolated to the case of primeval man, when he attributed to such natural phenomena a supernatural entity, he was really projecting his egotism onto the sun and moon, for no other everyday phenomena was so titanic so as to demonstrate his self perception to himself
this vile egotism has pervaded the entirety of existence, by way of anthropomorphism he moulded god into his own image, after inventing a parable to elucidate his self perception he moved onto other objects, he thought he could delineate certain objects with words and sounds, by way of which he moved onto certain figures and shapes for which no parallel truly exists in the natural world, for his egotism compelled him to extrapolate his ideals onto the natural world, and not vice versa, such may be the case with morality and his higher ideals of virtue and goodness.
higher ideals themselves are an embodiment of what has been described above, man has an inveterate belief that natural phenomena themselves must obey the laws which he himself as propounded, he has intrinsic belief that all that is good flows as a tributary from his own propounded morality, and deceives himself with a carefully constructed veneer of logic and rationality, indeed it is not that he rationalises first and uses deductive reasoning to come upon a system of morality, rather it is his egotism which sets itself up as a canvas and inspires a general predilection for aesthetic tastes, and what remains for logic is to varnish the canvas with as much vigour as possible.
truly man is such a vile creature and vile is he who calls him vile for that
