Neuroscientists have concluded that the most remarkable thing about our brains is that there is no one thing that is remarkable about our brains. They have also concluded that there is no central principal or area of the brain that governs over all the other areas.
Instead, each of the different sections of the brain work together like a congress of different cognitive perspectives, democratically deciding how to interpret stimuli from the outside world, and on what constitutes "truth."
Additionally, they have found that the 100 billion neurons in our brain, and the 100 trillion synapses that connect nerve cells in our brains, actually atrophy in the absence of diversity and grow stronger with exposure to diversity. Creativity, as a result, can only grow in the rich soil of such diversity.
Diversity, in other words, is the sunlight of creativity, while ever greater conformity tends to act like a burial shroud to such creative capacity, in the same way that keeping a flower in the closet leads it to whither and die.
Conformity, then, is the coffin nail that actually seeks to organize a society from without, by eroding the basis for creativity from within. And in true Orwellian fashion, religions all claim to be the "light of the world," even as their quest to impose dogmatic conformity on humanity only serve to wrap the human capacity for creativity in the burial shroud of Turin.
If religion is a linguistic mind virus, as some have argued, its dogmatisms tend to spread across a population like a brain cancer of conformity.
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