Preventing Chaos

There are, indeed, many material ways to prevent society to fall into a complete and irreversible chaos. The most common publicly recognized is the prison system. It is widely believed that the prison system, used around the world in different manners, prevents people from committing certain actions that would lead the world into a worse state than the one it currently finds itself in. It is also true, that at times people seem to forget the consequences of their actions and certain terrible situations are brought about. The prison system does not then appear to be enough as a punishment for human wrongdoings. In those cases, there is the need for something with a bigger power to controls people more often than not in order to prevent world mayhem. There is a secret key holder to the chest that holds pandemonium to its maximal potential: religion. Even though many believe that religion is simply the hope of a better after life, religion plays an important role in society as a stability safeguard. People seem to be more scared to go to hell than to go to prison since there are known ways to escape prison but that cannot yet be said about hell.
The prison system is known to have plenty imperfections even though it has evolved through time. Those defects begin at the work it takes to find someone worthy of spending some quality time in one of its locations, to what happens once that person is inside. In simple terms, first of all, a criminal must undergo a trial during which said person must be found guilty. If that is not the case, then that means one less inmate. However, if after what sometimes takes months or years, the conclusion is reached that the person in trial has been found guilty as charged, then a sentence is given and the person is sent to prison. There are ways to work with the system to play with the sentence, whether that means a reduction of the time that is to be spent behind bars or changing a death sentence to simply spending a lifetime in jail, or even setting a time and date to leave the prison. This, of course, it the person in question is able to go through the trouble. Once inside, however, there are privileges for those who can afford to pay for them. For some, it could be as though they had never left the outside world. The other option, as difficult as it could be, is escaping and there are several individuals known to have escaped whether by their own physical or monetary abilities.
Hence, religion’s existence is somehow necessary, but also fails its attempts to keep the world as a harmonious place since disturbances occur everyday. Yet, people seem to fear hell more than they do prison. The main reason for such terror is that hell is a place people speculate about, but there is not any concrete knowledge of what it is like. Since people tend to fear the unknown, whatever that might be, hell represents a bigger horror than prison. People then will stop themselves short of committing a crime or acting in what is considered the incorrect way as minimal as such action might be.
Hell is the place that everyone in his or her right mind should not want to spend at. Yet, that is that is known about it. There is absolutely not any knowledge of what it is actually like. That is not to say that people would actually like to find out. It is religion perfect tool the way it is. If any knowledge, provided of course that this place is real, was to be known to human kind, the thrill would be lost. People would immediately device a way to manipulate their way within its confines or escape it, as is the case with prison. It is very fictional, but precisely because of the horror charged mystery that accompanies it, hell is the best way to prevent chaos in the world. Independently, of which religion is presenting it or in what way as well as regardless of the name it is given. It is a place of eternal suffering.
There is much work to be done in order to materialize a flawless system that would prevent complete disorder. In the mean time, humans will continue to recur to their imagination as means to keep the world from self-destruction. The essential: innovation not indoctrination.


xoxo,
Poison Drops


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