evolution of Civilization part 1 our existence in our story
Welcome to a new series called evolution of civilization
This history series is designed to introduce profound topics that shaped our lives in our civilization
It's an overview of topics without getting lost in too many details or academic debates
The hope is that you gain a broader perspective of your place in the world and a more intimate connection with the Arcs and themes
the context and considerations
The ideas and decisions that shaped it
It's about telling our collective story in unfamiliar way
Hopefully offering insights and perspectives that may add to the understanding of ourselves
The first three episodes were created to set the stage and give some context to the main series
The first episode will focus on the profoundness of our existence as the foundation
this most obvious phenomenon is ironically overlooked and
Acknowledging our existence is a meaningful place to start a real human story
The second episode will set sail into the cosmos to view the highlights of our elemental past
From the beginning of time as we currently know it - the origin of the earth in
The third episode will travel through the human past to arrive at the dawn of civilization
From there, we'll begin our primary. Task of walking along the paths of the monuments created during our evolution
We will look at things like the history of language and the origin of cities for example
so first things first let's
begin again at the beginning
when telling a story we usually begin at the beginning
But this story has a completely different kind of beginning than all others in
The story of us. We must think about our existence first
Which means that we start with our very being here now?
We don't begin the story with thoughts. We begin with our being with our senses
The fact that we're listening to this
The fact that there is anything to listen to in
Our existence is not mundane despite how it often appears
The mundane is Meaningless in the face of existence. It's the deepest of all things and
That requires a different beginning than a bedtime story
Here we are in existence
Right now is a miracle
it's strange that we never talk about existence just
the plain fact that we exist nothing more
the most fundamental thing of all is almost never talked about
similar to death
Perhaps these things are too real for most of us perhaps. They are too deep and important to be left a casual conversation
Doesn't it strike you as odd that we're here
That there is this voice?
You listening?
We're on this gigantic rock that's spinning around a giant fireball
One of billions making up our Galaxy alone and countless other galaxies
That there is life
Out of the infinity of space and time here we are now and that
This voice and yours and all the others are the expression of that universe unfolding continually
What a miracle existence is
The subject really comes up, and if it does, it's bundled into questions like why are we here or what does it mean?
What is our purpose and other existential questions which are great, but are really a side note to the simple fact of existence
Existence that which is occurring right now and keeps occurring
Out of nowhere here. We are
Quite Miraculous when you think about it
But if existence is so profound, why does it seem so ordinary I?
Think existence is a miracle
But existing on the other hand is rarely that for most people
Certainly the fact that life survives by consuming itself is not the best way to exist
but
it's a miracle for us to experience existence and
Especially now that we understand the world so well
Our knowledge of it is unprecedented in all of history and probably in all of space and time
So it's always great to retell our story
Everything that exists including you and me right now is an expression of the universe itself
We are way for the universe to know itself
we are the universe and we have woken up to ourselves as
The universe we see ourselves when we look out
That's a quite a profound and humbling notion
To be connected to everything to be everything across space and time all at once
We keep popping into existence in different forms always ourself. The one universe just varieties of it
One of these forms has developed over countless generations
To learn and understand what's happened and occasionally? We look back at Ourselves in awe
All other animals oblivious to such knowledge
Engaged in a Hostile world without such understanding
What's more is that they exists in a world where life survives by killing and there's no way out?
The greatest of all horrors is occurring for most beings
Since this fundamental acknowledgement of ourselves is so rare it seems. We've gotten ahead of ourselves in our daily lives as
if the train showed up and we were born and we got on without question and
Now we're going full speed ahead in a direction that we can barely under control
but good reason of course that being daily living is demanding the
Process of becoming civilized in a world spinning out of control since the beginning of time is not easily reconciled
our civilization has been in damage control since the beginning our
First task then is to be aware of our existence in an authentic way
first simply to notice it and
Then to keep noticing it to develop an awkward
To remember it and to share it
Once we've collectively recognized the profoundness of our existence, then we'll be in a better position for learning how to live in the world
We can appreciate our existence by spending time and reflection
mindful of our situation
Beyond that we can tell stories about it about ourselves
where we came from where we're going a
practice going back to our origins
What's new in the modern world is the bountiful knowledge that informs our stories, and that's what this series is all about
So now onto our story
the types of stories will be covered here are very familiar to us yet at the same time largely unknown in any concrete form
for example more than half the people on Earth now live in cities including most of you and
That may be the only place you've ever lived
But this is altogether new for humans. So where did cities come from?
When did they originate and why?
That's a topic for a future episode
Furthermore, we think of history and too far abstract terms as if it happened so long ago and therefore largely
Alien to us A
Reflection of our education system in part, but also due to humanity's historic Lack of knowledge
only in the past few hundred Years have we compiled all this data and
Only now are we beginning to sift through and put it all together
With this new information we can see how recent history really is that all these things just happened
By picking the right moments ideas and connections
Largely unknowable until the Modern age we can revitalize a real and interesting heritage
At times in the past we could do this
But only a select number people and about very select topics
Without ways to share it and in a palatable way for a general audience in
Our modern world. What is significant is being able to see all this at once and picking the right things to focus on?
We'll grab certain aspects from the timeline the chose patterns that couldn't be seen otherwise our
New knowledge allows us to create new threads to connect us to so many ideas
By looking at the history of language for example
We can see new cultures Emerge, and we can see where they spread and what they brought with them
Will shrink the historic timeline to make long ago events seem modern and relevant?
even going back 10,000 years
People are much the same as they are now
with similar feelings desires wishes
needs urges
The main differences are what we have around us and what we do with these things in
Many ways that's not much of a difference
What we wear changes, but not whether we have clothes
Where we live changes, but not the existence of communities all?
The things that we don't notice because they're so obvious and plentiful just started recently
Nearly all that
We know is from the past 10,000 years a blink of an eye in the history of the cosmos the Earth and life
Going back 10,000 years. We just began to produce metals. We just developed agriculture
We just learned to really navigate by the stars
Humanity just started cities. They just started language writing and reading schools
Likewise, we just started things like Wars
Wars only started recently I mean, they're not inevitable
In the past few hundred years we just discovered the micro world of germs and atoms the Macro world of space
We just discovered our heritage both human and animal we just created Democracy's
Most let's just move from rural spaces into cities
We've only just now begun to explore space
Now I'd like to move on to what this series is not
This is not a detailed or thorough account that's reserved for academics and people wanting long expositions in book form
every single sentence can be taken apart and questioned
Analyzed and studied by academics who can find much more detail and add?
Clarification I can even find issues with anything covered if given enough time
That's the topics are thoroughly researched from academic sources
so in closing
The world is so filled with info that it's daunting and overwhelming in
Fact it's impossible to take it all in
What happens then is that we don't learn the truly significant events, and we collectively forget in
Their place we learn what the controlling interest want us to learn like parents popular culture government
What is helpful standing back and looking at our heritage in a new way?
It can give us context to show us who we truly are
Which is much greater than we thought?
It guides us forward where we had not seen a path before
It's important to tell a new human story one that contains our significant events beyond the events that we learned in school by Authority
the ones that made us truly human
The ones that happened over generations too long to tell without our modern knowledge
The ones that happen over great spaces too large to comprehend until now
The ones that were created by the common people those who built the world those who suffered from the lack of understanding of it
It's relatively recent that we compiled the story to tell we lack the Macro view
And now we're in the early stages of retelling that story
To borrow a line my hope is that after our exploration we arrived where we started and we know the place to the first time?