Civilization and Beyond
A Metaconscious Mosaic Outline
The bad news is that there is nothing "written in the stars" (so far as anyone knows) that insists the story of humanity on planet Earth is destined to have a "happy ending." As noted earlier,1 the dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a hundred million years, and their mammalian contemporaries just had to make the best they could of a situation that relegated them, for all that time, to the sidelines of the biological action. We humans have only been here now for the past three or so million years, only the most recent ten thousand of which have we any "memory." By those standards, a hundred million years is a mighty long stretch; yet the dinosaurs might still be in charge of the planet today, were it not for the "fortunate accident" (for the mammals, as it turned out, not for the dinosaurs) of a catastrophic collision, evidently, with a passing asteroid or comet. This fortuitous event wiped the dinosaurs out, and opened up innumerable ecological niches, formerly occupied exclusively by reptiles, which enabled the surviving mammals to flourish; and eventually, for genus Homo to make our appearance.
Today, the world is dominated by Taker culture in much the same way it was dominated by dinosaurs during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods of the Mesozoic Era. This leaves little "wiggle room" for anyone on the planet with a desire to opt out of Taker culture – which operates on the basis of pre-emptive force and does not offer an "option" for opting out of the Taker chain gang. The choices on the Taker menu are two: Join us, and obey us, or die. Which is ultimately only one choice: Die. Taker culture is on the way down, not because of an asteroid or a comet, but because of our own insane self-destruction, bread in the bone, and died in the wool of Taker culture. Mother Earth simply cannot sustain Taker culture any longer, so Taker culture is on its way out. Whether there is anything left of the planet, biologically, after the Takers' self-immolation has run its course is "too close to call." That's the bad news. There is also some good news.
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* Source: A Pact With the Devil.
1. In The Metaconsciousness Myth.
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