A brief History of being screwed In the past people through the temple, the stories, or the land, had a sense of belonging, a sense of worth, of value in the great order of things. This was dispensed with through a consumer-centric society, deliberately so due to the billion brokers via the temple. I believe starting in 341 ads ( or possibly much earlier ), the council of Nicene where the Latin concept of filioque, moved the church towards papal primacy and the shift towards Machiavelli's the prince ( though Machiavelli and his beloved Florence were at considerable odds with Venice). The shift that saw ordinary man fell from being the image of God , ape ,ie with creative ideas and rational thought to a high ape, a beast of burden. Beasts from where the feeling of meaningfulness came through the purchase of more and more perceived value goods. Beasts of which were disposable when they were unable to maintain the burden and as the 1st-century Jewish ...