Immunology

[oneiromancer666]

Once upon a time, humans lived in harmony with the Earth. Then in Mesopotamia a culture decided that it was going to conquer the world. They brutally expanded their cultural empire by either forcing their neighbors to assimilate into their culture or by outright slaughtering their neighbors. Over the course of ten thousand years this cultural

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[stevay20]

That is a very interesting way to look at it, and I agree with you for the most part. To use your colors I feel the need to point out that there was more than one black culture, although these other greedy possessive ones may have been infected by one original. I do think I would blame our culture today on European culture more so than that of the Mesopotamians, but I see where you're coming from.

Do you think we'll make it to this grey society, or do you like me think that we'll kill each other first?

metaculture

[oneiromancer666]

For the sake of simplicity I had avoided the use of the word metaculture, but now I will elaborate. The "black" global "culture" is actually a metaculture. The plurality of "black" cultures exists within the singular "black" metaculture. The notions of separation and ownership are the core defining memes of that metaculture, and are what are absorbed to make an infected culture become "black". The "white" global "culture" was also a metaculture, a collective of the ecologically harmonious cultures whose common meme was that of belonging to the world. Keep in mind that the "black" metaculture began ten thousand years ago [in Mesopotamia]. It has had several thousand years to spread its metacultural infection

Re: metaculture

[stevay20]

I can accept that answer. I'm satisfied.

I too think that the grey society will come from the ashes, but I also do not think that enough humans will grasp none-aggressive militarism until we exist as more than just countries; Possibly more than just earth. In short I think it will take wide spread communication with another intelligent species, or a multi-colonial feud being settled. By multi-colonial I mean us existing as the dominate species on more than one rock.

Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I'm not too sure it will ever happen. Some kind of stain has been embedded into what we are as a species, and I don't think that even blood can wash it clean.

stain

[oneiromancer666]

The mass of humanity does not listen to what the intellectuals have to say. Would the masses listen to a trans-stellar alien species saying the same things? Considering phenomena such as the Hale-Bopp comet cult, perhaps they would. I am missing how it is though that you conceive that a multiplanetary feud would facillitate an awakening any better than our current multinational feuding.
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Humanity has a simple choice: enlightenment or death. Near-death experiences have a way of motivating people. Near-death is unfortunately the key notion. Our current problem is that humanity is too short-sighted to fully acknowledge the impending apocalypse that it is creating