In theology, we have monotheism, which implies the existence of LOCAL SOURCING of the creative act, and with the belief that man is made in God’s image, there is the notion that a man’s behaviour is ‘locally originating’. Aboriginals and pagans, on the other hand, believe that dynamic phenomena is non-rational;

Monotheist Belief: – Assumes that the present depends only on the immediate past. (linear/rational)

Aboriginal Belief: – Assumes that the remote past directly influences the present (nonlinear/non-rational)

‘Memory’ and ‘energy thresholds’ (e.g. ‘emotional thresholds’) suggest the non-rational model (as in ‘nonlinear dynamics’, avalanches, earthquakes etc, where spatial energy ‘tensions’ build and can be suddenly released).

As an article in the Christian Science Monitor observes;

“The memory of colonization by Western powers is still fresh in the minds of many Arabs. From Algeria, Lebanon, and Syria, to Egypt and Iraq, the legacy of foreign military presence led not to economic and political growth on par with the foreign power, but rather its opposite. The people were subjugated to foreign rule and puppet rulers. Nationalistic leaders were silenced or exiled. Territory was divided and new and seemingly arbitrary boundaries created. Natural resources were exploited and markets were cultivated to foster dependency rather than development.”

Thus, we speak of persisting TENSIONS in a common living space or direct influences from the distant past (similarly, the wife may put up with the husband that has several extra-marital affairs, but ‘one too many’ and it may be ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’.)

There’s no doubt that ‘the non-rational model’ of causation is more realistic, but the notion of blame is shaped by religious influences; e.g. in the article ‘Blame Society First’ (reason.com), one of many showing the ‘split’ in the psychological modeling of ‘cause’, the author mocks the practice of imputing ‘cause’ to anyone other than the actual perpetrator of the ‘crime’; i.e. he rewinds the film from the present ‘bad result’ and searches the immediate past to identify the ‘causal agent’ (where the buck starts and stops) and then its ‘mission accomplished’ (as in the removal of Saddam Hussein).

Space has the capability of ‘storing energy’ (‘energy of position’ or ‘potential energy’) and ‘suddenly releasing it’, but such spatially stored energy is ‘invisible’ and thus to accept that the sourcing of present dynamics derives from the remote past implies ‘occult force’ which is what monotheism ‘outlaws’.

For aboriginals, the space of nature is God and thus space is ‘full’ (a plenum) whereas, in monotheism, space is empty and populated with local humans (etc.), notionally with ‘their own locally originating (internal choice driven) behaviour.

The bad acts of hungry people in the streets of pre-revolutionary Paris were the RESULT of (tensional) conflict in France, not the cause of it. When the’big energy release’ came in 1789, the good/bad bourgeoisie/proletariat norms were inverted, inverting the direction of causation and blame.

That is, blame means one thing if one prefers monotheism and its associated empty-space linear/rational models and it implies another thing if one prefers pantheism and the full-space nonlinear/non-rational models (occult causation) it implies.