The Silence of God
I saw Silence the movie last night.
And it is about the silence of God.
And how can God fall silent unless he was already speaking? And God did speak to us not so long ago through our bicameral mind. We heard the voice of God who guided us for quite a long time until life started to become to complicated for guidance by an unconscious voice, and so we become conscious and started to guide ourselves, and so the voice of God fell silent.
And we have been mourning God's silence ever since. Still, we have vestiges of the voice of God in the voices heard by schizophrenics, but schizophrenics can't function in the complex modern world, so we call them mad.
And we make up stories about why God is silent: we say he left us because we offended him and has gone up to heaven, but one day when evil is defeated, he will return, the once and future King.
How we miss the comfort of the voice of God, and so we substitute all kinds of superstition from astrology, to ET, to mbti. We are lost children in a universe we can't even imagine, so we imagine all kinds of fantasies.