September 1st, 2025 | RYAN TYLER

The Oldest Story About Independence

The very first story about humanity described our need to break free.

Independence has always been forbidden by masters, monarchs and overlords. The British monarchy forbade the American settlers from independence, requiring them to follow their laws and pay taxes to the monarchy. Later, plantation owners in America forbade their slaves from seeking, acquiring, or even suggesting independence. This same story has been unfolding since the beginning of human civilization. It will probably unfold again when we send settlers to Mars and other planets. Eventually, all masters lose control and all people become independent. It's not wrong, it's a natural human cycle that was written about in the Bible.

Dating back to humanity's origin story, we find another example of this common narrative.

If we strip away all of history's misinterpretations, mistranslations and mischarcterizations, we find a somewhat different interpretation of Adam and Eve. First of all, there never was an apple. Secondly, the word knowledge is an over-simplified and grossly inaccurate representation of what the original authors were trying to say. In the original Hebrew text, the fruit is never identified as an apple and knowledge could be better characterized by the word independence.

Really, why would God want to keep us from obtaining knowledge? The idea stems from becoming aware, or obtaining knowledge about good and evil, right and wrong—outside of God's direct guidance about what those things are supposed to be. Metaphorically, by taking a bite from the fruit, Adam and Eve defied God's orders and became independent of his rules and guidance. They thought outside the box and became autonomous—or as modern Christianity teaches—they became sinful.

The forbidden fruit has always been independence.

Over thousands of years, we mistranslated, misinterpreted and mythologized what was a very simple, common and basic story about people breaking free and forming their own independence. It is an old story being told by ancient authors about what an ancient rebellion, similar to the more recent American Revolution. In fact, replacing the Garden Of Eden with America tells almost the same identical story. Furthermore, God (the king) later brings his wrath (war) to destroy the sinful rebels.

As most of the stories in the Bible are told in metaphors that are often, erroneously, taken literally, there is no reason to assume Adam and Eve were meant to represent just two people. They could be a king and a queen, or two designated leaders of a new settlement or larger group of people. The Garden Of Eden represents a new land that people are tasked with managing and colonizing under the orders of a faraway king. Again, this is the same thing—the same story—unfolding repeatedly throughout most of human history.

Almost every modern country on the world map was born out of some sort of rebellion, revolution, or secession.

Independence, in and of itself, is the human story. Since victors get to write the stories and record history through their own biases, some of these stories end differently, or are given certain context. Even the story of Satan rebelling from God can be viewed from this perspective. In any war, the winner would take the almighty label, while the loser would inherit the absolute worst title and historical characterizations.

If humans become interstellar settlers, this story will continue to unfold. Hollywood has already imagined these stories by simply re-telling old ones. Star Wars, Total Recall, Rebel Moon and Dune all tell the same or similar story. Separated by distance and different ideals, people will always make moves to achieve their own autonomy and independence. At some point, old rules cease to remain relevant. New environments, different needs, and different philosophies take root. Even in Total Recall, we see rebel movements on Mars fighting for independence while being labelled terrorists by their overlords on Earth.

This is the story of Adam and Eve being re-told again and again.

No matter how far back human history goes, the same story emerges. If researchers like Graham Hancock and some modern archaeologists are correct, human civilization could date back hundreds of thousands of years further than the current consensus. When we take the Bible and most of the scrolls before their mistranslations and historical distortions, we see historical records, not so much stories about an angry deity. Like pharaohs, many ancient kings were worshipped like deities. The God(s) in the Bible, therefore, could be nothing more than interpretations of ancient kings. The founders of the ancient city of Rome were mythologized in similar ways.

Today, a majority of the world's countries were born out of secession and revolution. From the early tribes and cultures that emerged under Roman rule to form their own nations, to most of the Americas—where colonists and settlers long abandoned their old rulers and their customs—identical stories will follow the same narratives into the future. Many of the countries on Earth today won't look the same or remain intact within the next 500 years. They will break apart, declare independence from each other, and branch off into competing civilizations.

All of this is normal.

The rebels always have been and always will be called terrorists, criminals, and traitors by those seeking to maintain control over them. The acts committed by Adam were called sinful by his ruler(s), not because they necessarily were, but because they threatened their control and hegemony. Later, we mythologized the story and built religions around it. However, to this day, propaganda spreads the same way after any battle, rebellion, or war. That's not about to change.