In the beginning there was ego – “my way!” (like a child throwing a tantrum, and the subsequent, violence, theft, rape it caused) along came Abraham and the giving of the Torah and the ego was suppressed – as Judaism (through Christianity and Islam conquered almost the entire world) the ego was suppressed – lurking beneath, like a serpent waiting for prey, it desperately desired to be released – the perfect excuse (namely, in the western hemisphere) came, when under the guise of stupid scientific dogma, like Darwin (a theory based in the past – millions or billions of years, when no one saw or could prove etc.) gave man (our libido and ego) the “moral” right to not be limited – finally, as we are now sick of meaningless empty lives (and many in the west,) we seek, and hence find, the infinite