@johncurtis920

4 years ago

It is becoming increasingly apparent that our globe-spanning civilization is but the latest chapter in a story going back far longer than we know. Would that we could read it from the beginning, eh? But I suppose that will never be possible. That story seems to have been written on an Etch-a-Scetch tablet. One that some past event shook to such an extent that almost all the story is gone. Only the megalithic bare bones remain. Even so whatever it was we humans built, it must have been utterly amazing in its fashion. To be able to work such wonders in gigantic stone (for instance), betray a civilization with a depth of knowledge that not only rivals all we know today, but also was knowledgeable in a fashion about things which we can't even dream because our ways blind us to other potentialities. Ours is a different kind of civilization. Nestled as we are within it we cannot see the way in which the past informed and shaped itself. But they were human. So we can learn from what we see; recognize its humanity and in so doing perhaps better inform our own future. We need to do this. It is a worthy task. Why? Because something happened to bring them all down. And if it has happened before, it can happen again. And the next time we may not be so lucky. So let's take what we know, try as best we can to understand what we've lost, and move outward in the Universe. Let's try to arrange to live and love, create, destroy and build as humans are wont to do for a span of time at least as long as the dinosaurs. Let's avoid another "reset." We do that, and then we can truly call ourselves great. John~ American Net'Zen

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