Truly Modern Humans...We've been around for a lot longer than history will tell you but science knows. The reason is that the bones, in many cases the only evidence to persist until the present day, suggest Modern Humans. That far back however the cultural artefacts have decomposed, been recycled by the earth. Ropes, anything made of wood, basically there's nothing left. Until you get to the more recent experimentation with metals, bronze, iron etc there's not much to find unless you count preserved peat boggy bodies, high mountain frozen mummies, that kind of thing.
Tribal cultures created? Dances, Songs, Works of Art, COMMUNITY.
The revival of archaic values is well on the way if not very nearly complete.
The return of Tattooing, the popularity of Dancing, Singing, human creativity of all kinds.
At the end of History, all of these things are coming back to haunt us...
While all around the rest of the plebs carry on consuming things made out of stuff...
There isn't enough stuff left, and there are already too many things!
Quoting Terrence McKenna on our culture:-
This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture.
Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
Greatest Understatement EVER!!!
Light &
Love
Jon
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