The irreplaceable power of being watched

Throwing the baby Jesus out with the bathwater of imperfect beings
failing to adhere perfectly to a teaching (an attempt to sound clever
about the bigger picture of mocking and deriding and attempting to
socially cancel the likes of Christianity) had at least one grave,
unintended consequence: it removed from collective awareness what
was once the sense of one's actions/behavior being watched.

"Freed" from being watched by a God, suddenly any and/or all behavior
became, well... well, who fucking cares? Nobody's watching! Do as
you please!

However, arguably all that happened was trading one set of shackles
for another, because self-centric behavior always ultimately destroys
others en route to itself.

The proof in the value of being watched is, as behavior became
increasingly, self-centric, the increase need to install *cameras*,
i.e. devices whose purpose is to watch actions/behavior, knowing
that, otherwise, mass devolution would proceed at breakneck pace.

Christianity never had to be "real" to work. It worked/works in
the sense of keeping destructive self-centrism at bay when even
half-assedly adhered to.

And there will never enough cameras save society from its loss....

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oldernow
xyz001 at nym.hush.com