The World is Fiat

An abstract God can be as much a projection as an anthropomorphic one. Maybe more so, or an evolution of the conception of a god that kept up with increases in the human power to affect and control the environment. So the struggle played out over responsibiiity. 

If some god isn't acting on you to cause certain outsized behaviors then I guess we are responsible. Darn, that means we can't attack the world with abandon. Time to grow up. This gets embodied in the mythos as creativity in the sense of making something out of nothing. 

Fiat. Let there be whatever. Better tools. More crops. Armaments out the ass. Religion. This is the thing, the world is what we make it. Why fuck it up? Psychological baggage, apparently, which is what's so discouraging about Trump. We appear to fuck up no matter what.