Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

Okay. Um good morning. Today we do um Sigma Freud. Uh first what I will do is I will put Freud in the context of the western religious intellectual and literary tradition. All right. So in the beginning um the main religion for us humans during the um ice age was animism. Okay. And the idea of animism is that we humans are no are no different from every other living conscious being in the world. Uh we are like the trees. We are like the animals. We're all interconnected together. And life is just a cycle um of life and death, birth and rebirth. All right. And this is this religion is still around today in many primitive societies for example in the Amazon. And then we transition to the mother goddess. So as we became more agricultural, fertility was more more important. We need to have more children and we needed to grow more crops. And so we began to worship the mother goddess and women were of very high status uh at this stage in history. But as populations grew and towns came into being, they came into competition with each other. They start to war against each other and this created polytheism. Polytheism is the idea that each place has its own god. That's its patron. And when these places come into conflict and war, the way they settle disputes is the losing party, their god becomes servant to the winning god. And this creates the idea of the pantheon that we see in Greek Roman mythologies as well as Norse mythologies. Now the radical break from this tradition was the birth of montheism. Now um there's going to be a lot of scholarly debate about which was the first monotheistic religion. Some say um there are certain Egyptian cults that were monotheistic. Some say the Jews were. Some say the Zoroastrians were. in this class. Um, what you what you learn is actually it was the Christians who were the first true monotheistic religion. And the reason why is the Christians introduced the idea of the Holy Trinity. All right?