If using the fall story as a jumping off point for theorizing, my favorite take is recognizing the impossibility of a relativistic shared paradise.
Was it that eating from a tree of the knowledge of good and evil led to exile from paradise, or would developing the relative opinions of what was good and bad necessarily make one perceive current living conditions as paradise if you could imagine something better?
And this difficulty compounds when two different people might each see different things as good or bad - if they are in a shared space, can that shared space truly be a paradise to them both?
Even though it’s not the initial intent of the story, it’s a much more interesting version of it.
If using the fall story as a jumping off point for theorizing, my favorite take is recognizing the impossibility of a relativistic shared paradise.
Was it that eating from a tree of the knowledge of good and evil led to exile from paradise, or would developing the relative opinions of what was good and bad necessarily make one perceive current living conditions as paradise if you could imagine something better?
And this difficulty compounds when two different people might each see different things as good or bad - if they are in a shared space, can that shared space truly be a paradise to them both?
Even though it’s not the initial intent of the story, it’s a much more interesting version of it.