Statues of the the Wright Brothers, downtown Dayton, Ohio, summer, 2018. Orville and Wilbur Wright, who invented the airplane, were heroes of civilization.
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This blog is for persons who believe these facts:
There are two forces that drive biology: cooperation, and selfishness.
The sixth mass extinction that is now underway was caused by civilization, the end result of human intelligence. Instead of transcending the selfish tendencies of biology, human intelligence amplified them. This is obviously a generalization, because cooperation still thrived through the centuries of civilization. But mass extinction would not be happening if cooperation had won out over selfishness.
Most communities that will exist after our civilization collapses will probably be regressions and de-evolutions, back to even more selfishness and less cooperation.
It is time to discuss the formation of a community that will not regress, but will instead start over from scratch with all that has been learned from centuries of civilization. It will not be a replacement civilization, but a “transcendization”. Transcendization is a new structure for humans that fully transcends and rejects selfishness and is completely built on the other pillar of biology, cooperation. This rejection of one of the two primary forces of biology is the foundation of transcendization.
This blog will be limited to thoughts and ideas built on these basic facts and propositions. Also, it will be future-oriented. Discussions only about current events or only about history are not allowed.
Many sub-topics will probably emerge.
Geography, male vs female, and defense against aggression from outside, seem like obvious ones.
So, let the conversation begin!
-Mike Monett, Dayton, Ohio, USA, October 25th, 2019
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