Quarantine Theories – Part 1

It’s funny how when I can’t really go anywhere during these times , I have actually travelled way more than before. New cities, new eras, new personalities. My head is brimming with fiction and facts interwoven into one single blob of endless possibilities. Honestly, I don’t really miss much of the outside world except a few doobies and some cuties.

Anyway coming to the quarantine theory part. I am giving a slow chapter by chapter read too this book Sapience and it is making me think into interesting directions. My theory triggered out of this one chapter which talks about divine interventions into the lives of prehistoric man. In a nutshell, Yuval bhaiya says that as the group size of forager men starting increasing it was getting difficult for them to operate as a group. He says that a maximum of 150 people can coherently be a part of group without much chaos. So it is a possible theory that the wall paintings of non-human like creatures from those times indicate that they took the help of culture to operate. The idea is if a large number of people can find a common belief it becomes easier for them to coexist. Thats how cultures came into existence. A tribe in South Africa might have a culture entirely different from the one in middle east but all together the forager men incorporated culture into their lives and the rest we know is history.

So this means people started having their own tiny little cults ? And probably this is how religions came into existence ? I was wondering then if this is how religions were born then probably the genius of each religion reflects the genius of those men. I think that all the religions and their beliefs we have in world right now depicts how those prehistoric men decided to go about exploring their existence. The mentions of the Sun God might actually just be an attempt of trying to make sense of the big yellow ball in the sky. Whatever it was, it did help people stay glued together as a community. That sense of common God did actually work. And how !