Every few years, few on the cosmic time scale, a civilization rises to prominence. A certain specie creating an era of their own, loading their "success" on Evolution. It's a pattern, a trend - a phenomena we two-legged mammals are quite deft at perceiving (patterns).
Homo sapiens - Talking of our own mini-era, there has been a trend within our civilization.
Time and time again, we create something. A social, collective, collaborative thought - an idea that implies to a significant amount of people.
Count - is important. How many, is the question. This must be unique to our civilization, no other specie reproduced with the same effective rate, maybe. These thoughts, ideas are tiny pieces in what can be called the instantaneous framework of the civilization. A social tool. A mercenary law. Strength of the idea is based on general acceptance. Individual and collective interests that caught general attention.
What does the future look like? There would be questions. There would be answers. Some might go against this well-established, ready-tested "way-of-life" of ours. Taboos, rituals, beliefs, traditions are all implanted within the system, very eager to sustain the test of time. A perfect one-to-one mapping between a deviating individual's actions and the prohibited / unacceptable / blasphemous code. Avoid. Or hell.
The advancement of the propelling, dynamic civilization and the dilution of relevance of that static idea - these are two entities in opposite spin. Try to hold on to both and the civilization will be ripped apart.
Luckily, there will be questions. There will be answers.
Shrinking in the prevailing winds, diffident to the first signs of the flock in the skies.. the rebellious sound of fluttering wings of the birds of change.. they strengthened their fences - as their sons watched. Thereon, generations grew up with scarecrows lined up around their conscience. A fear now floated in the winds.
That fear.. it had spread equally on either side of those walls.
Homo sapiens - Talking of our own mini-era, there has been a trend within our civilization.
Time and time again, we create something. A social, collective, collaborative thought - an idea that implies to a significant amount of people.
Count - is important. How many, is the question. This must be unique to our civilization, no other specie reproduced with the same effective rate, maybe. These thoughts, ideas are tiny pieces in what can be called the instantaneous framework of the civilization. A social tool. A mercenary law. Strength of the idea is based on general acceptance. Individual and collective interests that caught general attention.
What does the future look like? There would be questions. There would be answers. Some might go against this well-established, ready-tested "way-of-life" of ours. Taboos, rituals, beliefs, traditions are all implanted within the system, very eager to sustain the test of time. A perfect one-to-one mapping between a deviating individual's actions and the prohibited / unacceptable / blasphemous code. Avoid. Or hell.
The advancement of the propelling, dynamic civilization and the dilution of relevance of that static idea - these are two entities in opposite spin. Try to hold on to both and the civilization will be ripped apart.
Luckily, there will be questions. There will be answers.
Shrinking in the prevailing winds, diffident to the first signs of the flock in the skies.. the rebellious sound of fluttering wings of the birds of change.. they strengthened their fences - as their sons watched. Thereon, generations grew up with scarecrows lined up around their conscience. A fear now floated in the winds.
That fear.. it had spread equally on either side of those walls.
