In my I95 journey, i was listening to a podcast about religion, and it got me thinking about everything. What it got me thinking about is one way to look at the history of human species is a series of learning experiences, where humankind learns to adjust to living in larger groups. We first lived in families, and then in tribes, but living in tribes had its challenges, such as communicating between members, and intertribe conflict. We learned to adjust to these new realities, and then lived in villages, which had other challenges such as defense and sanitation, and then in cities, with more and different challenges, and so on. At each stage, disasters, particularly local ecological disasters, become part of the learning experience. We evolved from cities to citystates to nations, to what we have now, which is essentially a global international society, incredibly tightly interwoven.
Every stage, family, tribe, village, city, nation, every stage has had its challenges, its rewards, and disasters that become part of the learning experience. We are currently in the stage of gobal society, where we are facing an energy, ecological, and human conflict disaster. One way to look at the current state is a learning experience, for humankind to learn how to live globally.
Perhaps we make it, perhaps we dont. If we make it, we advance to the next stage, of a society that fills the solar system, and then perhaps the stars.
Series of stages, where disaster and conflict are part of learning for each stage, and are required to advance to the next stage. We learn, we advance.
Perhaps thats the religion, to believe that humankind, even with all of the horror, is here for a purpose, is here to advance, is here to be part of the universe.
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