by shortonoil » Mon 06 Nov 2006, 10:41:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Over millions of years, the slowly plodding progression of evolution transformed members of the genus Homo into the most successful hunting/gathering creatures in history. Advanced by the glacially slow development of a larger and more complex brain, this group of beings survived by achieving a greater capacity to adapt.
41,000 years ago, an extraordinary cosmic nuclear Event occurred. The star, Geminga, in the constellation Gemini exploded, and 230 years later, for a few brief minutes, one-half of the earth was struck by a death-delivering beam of high intensity radiation. Plants withered and 40 million animals died as the lethal rays penetrated bone and tissue. Genetic material was scrambled and destroyed; rampant mutations pillaged the planet! One of these mutations affected Homo sapiens by changing the creatures’ brain function. The mutation resulted in a greatly enhanced capacity to mimic behaviors that the animal observed. This change led to Complex Culture; an amazingly successful survival mechanism and the foundation of civilization.
But the immensely successful rise of Complex Culture created its own significant problems. The Event’s mutation provided humans with a tremendous power to alter their environment. While the evolutionary process that originally created the mind was ponderously slow; the stellar rate of the Event’s mutation rapidly propelled the species into its own distant future. To learn how to control this newly acquired and immensely powerful capacity, humanity was given insufficient time.
Our present cultural structure and its root, mimicry, have brought humanity to a precarious position. From Complex Culture came advancing technology, and the species was granted a means to vastly and rapidly far overextend its presence. Harbored by the planet is a human population, now three and a half times greater than what is persistently sustainable. Consequently, in a desperate attempt to maintain this growing mass of humanity, we are furiously and rapidly pillaging the planet that maintains us!
excerpt from the Overview of
“MIND of a Predator”