Human Time on Earth is Exploding
For hundreds of thousands of years, the human population was stable, numbering at most 5,000 people. Agriculture, urbanization and science led to a population explosion And the rapid evolution of civilization.
When looked at in combination with the increase in life expectancy, the growth in volume of human hours to be lived is staggering. Prosperity, Safety and Liberty are needed for more people, for more time. Avoiding a humanitarian crisis will require expansion.
Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
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A brilliant, sophisticated analysis of the evolution of civilization viewed from an economic and financial lens’s.
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Excellent summary for the less data-minded.
The Evolution of Human Thought
Threads, Patterns, Predictions
When one examines the history of human evolution, the commonalities across cultures and the exchanges of ideas resulting from commerce, swindling, entertaining, travel and wars, all point to predictable human behaviors.
In future pieces, we will explore the evolution of human civilization in more depth across multiple axes to understand the interaction between them - art, communication, religion, innovation, etc.
The intent is to learn in order to navigate more effectively towards a better future.
The Book of the Secret of Creation
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus Translated by Sir Isaac Newton
Tis true without lying, certain and most true.
That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother,
the Wind hath carried it in its belly, the Earth is its nurse.
The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
Its force or power is entire if it be converted into Earth.
Separate thou the Earth from the Fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
It ascends from the Earth to the Heaven and again it descends to the Earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world
and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
Its force is above all force. For it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.
So was the world created.
From this are and do come admirable adaptations whereof the means (or process) is here in this.
Hence I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended.