Going with what you said about religions, svelte,All systems of social convention are bizarre , religion is just one of them, Perhaps a bit more anachronistic than say the system and trappings of a powerful modern secular nation state but at most a tiny bit more bizarre. Religious societies are not more ego based than the “separation of church and state” USA, for instance. We just aren’t all that no matter how we try to frame things.
And yet these nation states, and institutions within, lead most of us by the nose….to terrible waste and tragedy often.
